dizzy
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dizzy¹
- /ˈdɪzi/ UK, US
Rhymes with -ɪzi
Where it comes from
From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”).
Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).
adjective dizzier · dizziest · dizzie
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Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.
Similar: woozy
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Producing giddiness.
We climbed to a dizzy height.
Similar: dizzying
- Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy. My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
- simple, half-witted. Them as diz ’at is dizzy.
verb dizzies · dizzying · dizzied
- To make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder. Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature […]
dizzy²
- /ˈdɪzi/ UK, US
Rhymes with -ɪzi
noun dizzies
- A distributor (device in internal combustion engine). A service exchange distributor usually needs to be ordered by a motor factor and cost £150-200! I would suggest you use the SD1 dizzy body/cap etc but change the trigger mechanism to a modern electronic/breakerless unit such as the Newtronic unit.
Dizzy³
proper noun
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and twice prime minister of the United Kingdom.
proper noun Dizzys · Dizzies
- A nickname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: giddy, light-headed, woozy, featherbrained, empty-headed, sick, frivolous, airheaded, silly, ill, vertiginous, vertigo, dazed, stunning, lightheaded, squeamish
Translations
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adj experiencing a sensation of whirling and being unbalanced
| Español | mareado, vertiginoso, vaguido |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 暈 /晕 yūn |
| Português | tonto, zonzo |
| Français | avoir la tête qui tourne, avoir le vertige, pris de vertige |
| Deutsch | schwindelig, schwindlig |
| Italiano | avere le vertigini |
| Ελληνικά | ζαλισμένος zalisménos, συγκεχυμένος sygkechyménos, ζαβλακομένος zavlakoménos |
| العربية | دَائِخ dāʔiḵ |
| עברית | מסוחרר mesuchrár, מסוחררת mesuchréret |
adj producing giddiness
| Español | mareador, vertiginoso |
|---|---|
| Português | vertiginoso |
| Français | vertigineux, étourdissant |
| Deutsch | schwindelerregend |
| Italiano | vertiginoso |
| Ελληνικά | ζαλιστικός zalistikós, συγχυτικός synchytikós, ιλιγγιώδης ilingiódis |
| Русский | головокружи́тельный golovokružítelʹnyj |
adj empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous
| Français | tête en l’air, écervelé |
|---|
verb to make (someone or something) dizzy
| 中文 | 暈 /晕 yùn |
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title = {dizzy},
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