swimmy
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /ˈswɪ.mi/
Adjective edit
swimmy (comparative more swimmy, superlative most swimmy)
- Dizzy; swirling or moving as if seen in a daze.
- 1901, Henry Lawson, Joe Wilson and His Mates[1]:
- I hadn't noticed at Peter Anderson's—my head was too swimmy to notice anything.
- 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "I guess it was the heat, but I felt swimmy for a moment. That's all."
- 1995, Iain Banks, Whit:
- It was as well I was sitting down; the experience of dizziness induced by a familial revelation did not seem to be a condition I was becoming inured to, despite the frequency with which it had swept through me in the past few days. My sight seemed to go a bit swimmy for a while, but I just sat and waited for it to clear.
Noun edit
swimmy (plural swimmies)
- An inflatable armband to help children swim.