giddy
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giddy¹
- /ˈɡɪd.i/ UK
- /ˈɡɪd.i/ Australia, Canada, US
- [ˈɡɪɾ.i] Australia, Canada, US
Rhymes with -ɪdi
Where it comes from
The adjective is derived from Middle English gidi, gedy, gydy (“demonically controlled or possessed; crazy, insane; foolish, idiotic, ridiculous, unwise; unsure; (rare) dizzy, shaky; (rare) of an animal: crazed, out of control; a fool”) [and other forms], from Old English gidiġ, gydiġ (“possessed by a demon or spirit, insane, mad”), from Proto-West Germanic *gudīg (“ghostly, spirited”, literally “possessed by a god or spirit”), from *god (“god”) + *-ig, *-g (suffix forming adjectives with the senses of being, doing, or having). Thus the word's elements correspond to god + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’, forming adjectives).
The noun and the verb are derived from the adjective.
adjective giddier · giddiest
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Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.
The man became giddy upon standing up so fast.
Similar: fuzzy, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, light-headed, rattleheaded, shoogly, vertiginate, westy, woozy
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Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.
They climbed to a giddy height.
Similar: vertiginous
- Moving around something or spinning rapidly. To ſpoil Antiquities of hammerd ſteele, / And turn the giddy round of Fortunes vvheele.
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Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous.
The Biſhop, and the Duke of Gloſters men, / Forbidden late to carry any VVeapon, / Haue fill'd their Pockets full of peeble ſtones; / And banding themſelues in contrary parts, / Doe pelt ſo faſt at one anothers Pate, / That many haue their giddy braynes knockt out: […]
Similar: brainsick, changeable, feather-headed, flighty, giglot, inconsistent, light-headed, overlight
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Used as an intensifier.
'E isn't one o' the reg'lar Line, nor 'e isn't one of the crew. / 'E's a kind of a giddy harumfrodite—soldier an' sailor too!
Similar: brainsick, changeable, feather-headed, flighty, giglot, inconsistent, light-headed, overlight
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Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.
The boy was giddy when he opened his birthday presents.
Similar: ecstatic, joyous, air-headed, blissed out, blissful, enrapt, rapt, cock-a-hoop, delighted, elated, euphoric, exultant
- Feeling great anger; furious, raging.
- Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”), which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly.
- Of a thing, especially a ship: unsteady, as if dizzy. The giddy Ship ran round; the Tempeſt tore / Her Maſt, and over-board the Rudder bore.
noun giddies
- Someone or something that is frivolous or impulsive. But the giddy, the idle, and the frivolous part of the vvorld vvill inceſſantly purſue a phantom, and graſp a ſhadovv.
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Synonym of gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”).
Similar: gid
verb giddies · giddying · giddied
- To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy. A nevv faſhion of apparrell creepeth no ſooner into vſe, but preſently he blameth and diſpraiſeth the olde, and that vvith ſo earneſt a reſolution, and vniverſall a conſent, that you vvould ſay, it is ſome kinde of madnes, or ſelfe-fond humor, that giddieth his vnderſtanding.
- To become dizzy or unsteady. Giddied, he gave up a moment's purchase of ground.
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To move around something or spin rapidly; to reel; to whirl.
[B]y chance, a sudden north-wind fetch'd, / With an extreme sea, quite about again / Our whole endeavours, and our course constrain / To giddy round, and with our bow'd sails greet / Dreadful Maleia, calling back our fleet / As far forth as Cythera.
Similar: vertiginate
Giddy²
proper noun
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: dizzy, light-headed, woozy, featherbrained, empty-headed, sick, frivolous, airheaded, silly, ill, vertiginous, dizzying, dazed, lightheaded, mischievous, staggering
Translations
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adj unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited — see also impulsive
| Español | frívolo, veleidoso |
|---|---|
| Français | étourdi |
| Deutsch | leichtfertig, flatterhaft, leicht abzulenkend |
adj lightheartedly silly — see also frivolous
| Español | frívolo |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 輕 /轻 qīng |
| Deutsch | aufgedreht, ausgelassen, freudig erregt, lebhaft, munter, vergnügt |
adj feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down — see also dizzy
| Español | mareado, vertiginoso |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 暈 un |
| 中文 | 頭暈 /头晕 tóuyūn, 眴, 眩 xuàn, 䵴 /𫜙 yìng, yùn, zèng |
| Português | tonto |
| Français | étourdi |
| Deutsch | schwindelig |
| Ελληνικά | ζαλισμένος zalisménos, συγκεχυμένος sygkechyménos, ζαβλακομένος zavlakoménos |
| Română | amețit |
| Русский | непостоя́нный nepostojánnyj |
adj causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness
| Español | mareador, mareante, vertiginoso |
|---|---|
| Português | vertiginoso, vortiginoso |
| Français | étourdissant |
| Deutsch | schwindelerregend |
| Italiano | vertiginoso |
| Ελληνικά | ζαλιστικός zalistikós, συγχυτικός synchytikós, ιλιγγιώδης ilingiódis |
| Română | amețitor |
| Русский | головокружи́тельный golovokružítelʹnyj |
adj moving around something or spinning rapidly
| Deutsch | herumrasend, herumwirbelnd |
|---|
adj joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness
| Español | embobado, bobamente alegre |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | außer sich vor Freude, völlig aus dem Häuschen |
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