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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Edgy \Edg"y\, adjective [From {Edge}.]
1. Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
2. (Fine Arts) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined. ''An edgy style of sculpture.'' --Hazlitt.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
edgy
adjective: being in a tense state [syn: {high-strung}, {highly strung}, {in suspense(p)}, {jittery}, {jumpy}, {nervy}, {overstrung}, {restive}, {uptight}] [also: {edgiest}, {edgier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "edgy": agitable, all nerves, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, apprehensive, breathless, chafing, combustible, eager, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, excitable, excited, explosive, fearful, fretful, fretting, frightened, hasty, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hopped-up, impatient, impetuous, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, inflammable, irascible, irritable, mettlesome, nerves on edge, nervous, nervy, on edge, overstrung, panicky, perturbable, prickly, restive, restless, sensitive, skittery, skittish, squirming, squirmy, startlish, touchy, uneasy, unpatient, unquiet, uptight, volatile, volcanic
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