giddy

1. (predicative only) Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.Examples: "The man became giddy upon standing up so fast."; "[W]hilst I vvas thus muſing, and attentively looking upon the VVater, to try vvhether I could diſcover the Bottom, it happened to me, as it often does to thoſe that gaze too ſtedfaſtly on ſvvift Streams, that my Head began to grovv giddy, and my Leggs to ſtagger tovvards the River, into vvhich queſtionleſs I had fell, if Philaretus had not ſeaſonably and obligingly prevented it."; "I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy."Synonyms: fuzzy, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, light-headed, rattleheaded, shoogly, vertiginate, westypredicative

2. (attributive) Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.Examples: "They climbed to a giddy height."; "[A]s vve pact along, / Vpon the giddy footing of the hatches: / Me thought that Gloceſter ſtumbled, and in ſtumbling, / Stroke me that thought to ſtay him ouer board, / Into the tumbling billovves of the maine."; "VVilt thou vpon the high and giddy maſſe, / Seale vp the ſhip-boies eies, and rocke his braines, […]"Synonyms: vertiginousattributive

3. (by extension)Examples: "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: […]"; "[I]n this ſtanding vvoodden cheſt, / Conſorted vvith theſe fevv bookes, let me lye / In priſon, and here be coffin'd, vvhen I dye; / […] / Here gathering Chroniclers, and by them ſtand / Giddie fantaſtique Poëts of each land."; "[I]n briefe, ſince I doe purpoſe to marrie, I vvill think nothing to anie purpoſe that the vvorld can ſaie againſt it: and therfore neuer flout at me, for vvhat I haue ſaid againſt it: for man is a giddie thing, and this is my concluſion: […]"Synonyms: brainsick, changeable, feather-headed, flighty, giglot, inconsistent, light-headed, overlightbroadly

4. (by extension)Examples: "'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!"; "I found him pokin' about the place on his own hook afterwards, an' I thought I'd show him the giddy drill. When I found he was so pleased, I wasn't goin' to damp his giddy ardour. He mightn't ha' given me the quid if I had."; "A giddy lot Scudder's friends cared for peace and reform."Synonyms: brainsick, changeable, feather-headed, flighty, giglot, inconsistent, light-headed, overlightbroadlydated

5. (by extension)Examples: "The boy was giddy when he opened his birthday presents."; "I come by note to giue, and to receiue; / Like one of tvvo contending in a prize, / That thinks he hath done vvell in peoples eyes; / Hearing applauſe and vniuerſall ſhout, / Giddy in ſpirit, ſtill gazing in a doubt, / VVhether thoſe pearles^([sic – meaning peals]) of praiſe be his or no."; "But I vvonder, that either theſe good men, or my mamma ſhou'd think, becauſe they may find it pleaſant vvho are come to maturity of judgment, that ſuch as vve vvho are in the gayeſt and giddyeſt part of life ſhou'd."Synonyms: ecstatic, joyous, air-headed, blissed out, blissful, cock-a-hoop, delighted, ecstaticbroadly

6. (by extension)Britishbroadlydialectal