Definitions

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  • adjective Pertaining to or like a hedge.
  • adjective Indecisive, hesitant, noncommittal, unwilling to take a side.

Etymologies

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hedge +‎ -y

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Examples

  • "hedgy" expression of the two sides of the French character.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • None of those vague, hedgy things boys usually said to give themselves a safety net.

    Pure Sin Kate Brian 2010

  • Naturally they were curious, the businessmen and cadre and assorted visitors, who offered up cigarettes and tea before making their first hedgy attempts at conversation.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Naturally they were curious, the businessmen and cadre and assorted visitors, who offered up cigarettes and tea before making their first hedgy attempts at conversation.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Naturally they were curious, the businessmen and cadre and assorted visitors, who offered up cigarettes and tea before making their first hedgy attempts at conversation.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Naturally they were curious, the businessmen and cadre and assorted visitors, who offered up cigarettes and tea before making their first hedgy attempts at conversation.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Naturally they were curious, the businessmen and cadre and assorted visitors, who offered up cigarettes and tea before making their first hedgy attempts at conversation.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Clifford was much more hedgy and nervous, he got cold feet much quicker in

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • Naturally they were curious, the businessmen and cadre and assorted visitors, who offered up cigarettes and tea before making their first hedgy attempts at conversation.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • War and no central government have reduced this country to poverty, where survival for most depends on hedgy trading.

    CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2002 2002

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