ridgy

[rij-ee]

adjective

ridgier, ridgiest 

1. rising in a ridge or ridges.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ridgy¹

First recorded in 1690–1700; ridge + -y ¹

Example Sentences

A 16-year-old Florida teen with Tourette's Syndrome is getting famous online with social media devoted to the adventures of him and his dog named “Callum the Ridgy.”

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The 34-year-old from England had six goals over his career in Portland and was known for rolling on the field after scoring, a move fans called the “Ridgy Roll.”

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At the top of “Like a Leaf,” two rectangles overlap — one in two dimensions and the other in three — while the reticulated red rhomboids that decorate “Making It Up,” get smaller and smaller until they finally burst into a ridgy impasto.

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NeoGeo X is a portable version of the console with 20 built-in games, a premium-feeling ridgy rubber back, a remarkably solid joystick and a pale-looking widescreen display that leaves games looking oddly stretched – though they can be returned to their original format after loading each one.

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The eye ranges over a wilderness of fantastic-shaped mountains, some shooting up sharp as arrows, others round and ridgy, separated by sinuous sea-lochs and glittering tarns,—a land of awful ruggedness and desolation,—of rock-bound shores cleft into myriad bays and fiords by the thundering almost ever restless northern sea that beats against them.

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