Definitions for: Giddy

[adj] lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles"
[adj] having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"

Webster (1913) Definition: Gid"dy, a. [Compar. Giddier; superl. Giddiest.] [OE.
gidi mad, silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw.
gidda to shake, tremble.]
1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling
about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of
the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall;
lightheaded; dizzy.

By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed. --Tate.

2. Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a
giddy precipice. --Prior.

Upon the giddy footing of the hatches. --Shak.

3. Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round
with celerity; gyratory; whirling.

The giddy motion of the whirling mill. --Pope.

4. Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable;
fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless. ``Giddy, foolish
hours.'' --Rowe. ``Giddy chance.'' --Dryden.

Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm.
--Cowper.

Gid"dy, v. i.
To reel; to whirl. --Chapman.

Gid"dy, v. t.
To make dizzy or unsteady. [Obs.]

Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, frivolous, ill, lightheaded, light-headed, sick, silly, vertiginous, woozy

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