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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Giddy \Gid"dy\, verb (used without an object) To reel; to whirl. --Chapman.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Giddy \Gid"dy\, verb (used with an object) To make dizzy or unsteady. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Giddy \Gid"dy\, adjective [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
giddy
adjective
1: 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}] [also: {giddied}, {giddiest}, {giddier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "giddy": addled, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, babbling, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, brainless, capricious, changeable, changeful, crapulent, crapulous, delirious, desultory, deviable, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, eccentric, empty-headed, erratic, faint, far-gone, fast and loose, featherbrained, featherheaded, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, flustered, fluttery, fou, freakish, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, full, gaga, gay, giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, glorious, happy, harebrain, harebrained, impetuous, impulsive, in liquor, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, infirm, intoxicated, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jolly, light, light-headed, lightheaded, maudlin, mazy, mellow, mercurial, merry, moody, muddled, nappy, off, rambling, ranting, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated, raving, reckless, reeling, restless, roving, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, shapeless, shatterbrained, shifting, shifty, shikker, shuffling, silly, skittish, sodden, sotted, spasmodic, spineless, swimming, thoughtless, tiddly, tipsy, turned around, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, under the influence, undisciplined, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vertiginous, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, witless, woozy, yeasty
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