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giddy adj

Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy. Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness. Moving around something or spinning rapidly. (by extension) Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous. (dated) Used as an intensifier. Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness. (British, dialectal) Feeling great anger; furious, raging. (British, dialectal, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”), which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly. (obsolete, figuratively) Of a thing, especially a ship: unsteady, as if dizzy. giddy n (archaic) Someone or something that is frivolous or impulsive. (British, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Synonym of gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”) giddy v (transitive) To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy. (intransitive) To become dizzy or unsteady. (obsolete) To move around something or spin rapidly; to reel; to whirl.

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