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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
giddy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
giddy optimism
▪ a giddy girl
▪ Drinking champagne always makes me giddy.
▪ Just watching those kids spinning makes me feel giddy.
▪ She suddenly felt giddy and had to find somewhere to sit down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Actually it felt nice to be giddy.
▪ But for many days he felt a curious discomfort, almost giddy at times, almost sad at other times.
▪ Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness.
▪ I tell her I am tired and giddy from last night's sleeping pill.
▪ She felt a giddy sensation of ground shifting under her feet.
▪ She felt a surge of giddy courage.
▪ Then we broke into giddy laughter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Giddy

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

Giddy

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

Giddy

Giddy \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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
giddy

Old English gidig, variant of gydig "insane, mad, stupid, possessed (by a spirit)," probably from Proto-Germanic *gud-iga-, from *gudam "god" + *-ig "possessed." Meaning "having a confused, swimming sensation" is from 1560s. Meaning "elated" is from 1540s. Related: Giddily; giddiness.

Wiktionary
giddy
  1. 1 dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down. 2 Causing dizziness: causing dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness. 3 Lightheartedly silly, or joyfully elated. v

  2. 1 (context obsolete transitive English) To make dizzy or unsteady. 2 To reel; to whirl.

WordNet
giddy
  1. 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" [syn: dizzy, woozy, vertiginous]

  2. lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles" [syn: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, light-headed, lightheaded, silly]

  3. [also: giddied, giddiest, giddier]

Wikipedia
Giddy (album)

Giddy is a compilation album by Irish band Pugwash, featuring tracks from their four previous studio albums. It was released by Ape Records on September 29, 2009.

Usage examples of "giddy".

These people moved in single file, and were all tied to a strong rope, at regular distances apart, so that if one of them slipped on those giddy heights, the others could brace themselves on their alpenstocks and save him from darting into the valley, thousands of feet below.

It was the emotion itself, the intense, giddying, slick, and sick-making ardor she had heard in their voices that appalled her.

The combination of the vibration of the motorcycle and the presence of Fayne sitting between her thighs made her giddy.

For want of anything better to do, and feeling a bit giddy, Gell waved back.

She was rather thin, had fine black eyes, a good complexion, lively but giddy manners, was a great laugher, and still capable of exciting a passing fancy.

Her husband was a giddy young fellow, who perhaps felt very deep affection for his wife, but who imagined that, through good breeding, he ought to appear very indifferent, and whose vanity found pleasure in giving her constant causes for jealousy.

It set off what became a cascading collapse in public confidence, sealing the final days of an era of giddy markets and seemingly painless, riskless wealth.

Soon Hiraga was giddy from the effort of concentration, and his desperate wish to understand everything when he understood almost nothing, but also because he could not comprehend why an official as important as Taira would answer any question an enemy would ask, forof course we are enemies.

Arts and Sciences should be subject unto any such Phantastical, Giddy, or Inconsiderate Toyish Conceits, as ever to be said to be in Fashion, or out of Fashion.

When Till suddenly stepped into the open, grinning at them, Washen felt a giddy, incoherent relief.

He was giddy with the odors wreathing up from the silver dishes generously arrayed upon a long table.

Then there was the giddy internal wrenching, a blast of icy air whistled round us, and we were gazing out at the Polar mountains, ringed in their eternal snow.

She drank the cool, yoghourt milk gratefully, but almost immediately felt giddy.

As it is, the cold has so benumbed me, and I am so giddy with the roaring of these waters under me, that every moment I expect to slip off.

With no audiences for his bravado, the self-styled Prince of Potcher was soon left with only a few score giddy boys and girls with longbows and a dozen suicidal bomb-throwers whose numbers were reduced each time they acted.