It's the word of the day for November 26th.
Today's word is Eddie, spelled E-D-D-Y.
Eddie is a noun, and Eddie is a current of water or air,
running contrary to the main current, especially as a whirlpool.
In figurative use, Eddie may refer to a contrary or circular current of thought or policy.
Here's the word used in a sentence from lithub.com.
These adventures were avenues to experience nature,
the way a river current bends around rocks to form strings of rapids and eddies,
the way snow blankets the land in a brisk silence.
I made note of these observations.
As I explored the landscape, I also began to explore its stories.
He walked by the stream far from the houses,
and in the light and warmth of the sun fell asleep on the bank.
When he awoke and was afoot again, he lingered there yet a little longer,
watching an eddy that turned and turned purposeless,
until the stream absorbed it and carried it onto the sea.
This use of eddy from A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens reflects a sense that has been swirling around English for centuries.
The earliest documented uses of the word eddy to refer to water currents goes back to the 1400s.
Etymologists traced the word to the Scottish dialect term which had the same basic meaning as our modern term.
The verb form of eddy meaning to move in or cause to move in an eddy,