LekhoriLekhoriFeeling 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.
Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.
They climbed to a giddy height.
Moving around something or spinning rapidly.
To ſpoil Antiquities of hammerd ſteele, / And turn the giddy round of Fortunes vvheele.
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.
Synonym of gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”).
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.
A surname.
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 anim...
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Giddied, he gave up a moment's purchase of ground.
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.