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GIDDY
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Irregular inflected forms: giddied , giddier , giddiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
Example:
silly giggles
Synonyms:
airheaded; dizzy; empty-headed; featherbrained; giddy; light-headed; lightheaded; silly
Classified under:
Similar:
frivolous (not serious in content or attitude or behavior)
Derivation:
giddiness (an impulsive scatterbrained manner)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
Example:
a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff
Synonyms:
dizzy; giddy; vertiginous; woozy
Classified under:
Similar:
ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)
Derivation:
giddiness (a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall)
Context examples:
Once, the terror of this giddy sweep overpowered me, and for a while I clung on, hand and foot, weak and trembling, unable to search the sea for the missing boats or to behold aught of the sea but that which roared beneath and strove to overwhelm the Ghost.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But the first boy seems to me a mighty creature, dwelling afar off, whose giddy height is unattainable.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
These thoughts, and a hundred other such thoughts, turned me burning hot, and made me giddy with apprehension and dismay.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Even poor, giddy, stupid me?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“He was crossing you and wheedling you, I saw; and you were soft wax in his hands, I saw. Had I left the room a minute, when his man told me that “Young Innocence” (so he called you, and you may call him “Old Guilt” all the days of your life) had set his heart upon her, and she was giddy and liked him, but his master was resolved that no harm should come of it—more for your sake than for hers—and that that was their business here?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At last I awake, very queer about the head, as from a giddy sleep, and see the butcher walking off, congratulated by the two other butchers and the sweep and publican, and putting on his coat as he goes; from which I augur, justly, that the victory is his.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It went from me with a shock, like a ball fired from a rifle: but the image of Agnes, outraged by so much as a thought of this red-headed animal's, remained in my mind when I looked at him, sitting all awry as if his mean soul griped his body, and made me giddy.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I recall him bending his aching head, supported on his bony hand, over the book on his desk, and wretchedly endeavouring to get on with his tiresome work, amidst an uproar that might have made the Speaker of the House of Commons giddy.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
