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▪ I. dizzy, a.|ˈdɪzɪ|
Forms: 1 dysiᵹ, dyseᵹ, 2–3 dysiȝ, dusiȝ, dusi(e |y|, 2–6 desi(e); 4–6 dys(s)y, (6 dusey), 6–7 dis(s)ie, -y; 6–7 diz(z)ie, 7– dizzy.
[OE. dysiᵹ, dyseᵹ foolish, stupid = OFris. dusig, MDu. dosech, dösech, LG. dusig, dösig, dusig giddy, OHG. tusig, tusic foolish, weak, a common W.Ger. adj. in -ig (-y), from a root dus- found also in LG. dusen to be giddy, OE. dyslíc, dyselíc foolish, stupid, and in a different ablaut grade with long vowel in LG. dûsel giddiness, MDu. dûzelen, Du. duizelen to be giddy or stupid. See early ME. derivatives under dusi-.]
1. a. Foolish, stupid. Now only dial. (Not in general use since 13th c.)
c825Vesp. Hymns vii, Swe folc dysiᵹ. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. vii. 26 Gelic bið were dysᵹe se ðe ᵹetimberde hus his ofer sonde [c 1160 Hatton desien men]. 971Blickl. Hom. 41 Geþenc, þu dyseᵹa mon. c1175Lamb. Hom. 117 Þer þe dusie mon bið þriste and þer þe dwolunge rixað. a1225Ancr. R. 182 Nolde me tellen him alre monne dusiȝest? a1250Owl & Night. 1466 Dusi luve ne last noht longe. a1275Prov. ælfred 479 in O.E. Misc. 131 Wurþu neuere so wod, ne so desi of þi mod. 1876Whitby Gloss., Dizzy, half-witted. 1893Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Z. II. 45 Such dizzy-fools that they put their money there.
†b. absol. A foolish man, a fool. Obs.
c825Vesp. Psalter xci. 6 Dysiᵹ ne onᵹiteð ða. c1175Lamb. Hom. 33 Hwet seið þe dusie. Ibid. 105 Wreððe hafð wununge on þes dusian bosme. a1225Leg. Kath. 599 Ha ne stod neauer, ear þene þes dei, bute biforen dusie.
2. Having a sensation of whirling or vertigo in the head, with proneness to fall; giddy.
c1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 771 Than waxes his hert hard and hevy. And his heved feble and dysy. 1526Skelton Magnyf. 1052, I daunce up and down tyll I am dyssy. 1568Turner Herbal i. 20 [Wolfesbayne] maketh [men] dusey [ed. 1551 dosey] in the head. 1581Mulcaster Positions xvi. (1887) 73 For feare they be disie when they daunce. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xiii. 40 They were so exceeding dizzy in the head that they would fall down. 1852Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 200 With my heart beating and my head quite dizzy.
fig.1726–46Thomson Winter 122 The reeling clouds Stagger with dizzy poise, as doubting yet Which master to obey.
3. a. Mentally unsteady or in a whirl; b. Wanting moral stability, giddy.
1501Douglas Pal. Hon. Prol. 101 My desie heid quhome laik of brane gart vary. 1599Broughton's Lett. ii. 9 Meere buzzings of your owne conceited dizzie braine. 1671Milton P.R. ii. 420 At thy heels the dizzy multitude. 1780Cowper Table Talk 607 He..dizzy with delight, profaned the sacred wires. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 61 My head is dizzy with thinking of the argument. 1878J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxv, Dance houses and saloons multiplied and ‘dizzy doves’ gave an air of abandon to the streets. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Duzzy, stupid; confused. ‘I'm mighty duzzy this morning.’ 1888Texas Siftings 29 Sept. (Farmer), Professional beauties or maidens, commonly called dizzy blondes. 1889Kansas Times & Star 4 Nov., Many of the local clergy last night warned the church members..against a ‘Dizzy Blonde’ company coming to one of the theaters soon. 1938G. Heyer Blunt Instrument ix. 166 The dizzy blonde herself. 1945[see dog n.1 17 q].
c. Startling, astonishing, vivid. slang.
1896Ade Artie xvii. 158 They was out there in them dizzy togs cuttin' up and down the track. 1897Daily News 10 Aug. 5/2 Four straw hats with ‘dizzy bands’. 1923R. D. Paine Comr. Rolling Ocean v. 84 When she limped into Brest a week overdue, the admiral called it a dizzy miracle.
4. Accompanied with or producing giddiness.
1605Shakes. Lear iv. vi. 12 How fearefull And dizie 'tis, to cast ones eyes so low. 1643Milton Divorce Ded., Did not the distemper of their own stomachs affect them with a dizzy megrim. 1812S. Rogers Columbus i. 24 The very ship-boy on the dizzy mast. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 561 He began..to climb..towards that dizzy pinnacle.
5. Arising from or caused by giddiness; reeling.
1715–20Pope Iliad v. 381 Lost in a dizzy mist the warriour lies. 1740Pitt æneid xii. (R.), A dizzy mist of darkness swims around. 1781Cowper Hope 518 The wretch, who once..sucked in dizzy madness with his draught. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola ii. vii, Thought gave way to a dizzy horror, as if the earth were slipping away from under him.
6. fig. Whirling with mad rapidity.
1791Cowper Iliad xxi. 10 Push'd down the sides of Xanthus, headlong plung'd, With dashing sound into his dizzy stream. 1795–1814Wordsw. Excursion viii. 179 The..stream, That turns the multitude of dizzy wheels.
7. Dull of hearing. dial.
1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Duzzy, deafish. ‘'E's lother duzzy; e doesna 'ear very well.’
8. Comb., as dizzy-eyed, dizzy-headed.
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 11 Dizzie-ey'd Furie..Suddenly made him from my side to start. 1611Cotgr. Estourdi, dulled, amazed..dizzie-headed. 1654Trapp Comm. Ps. cvii. 33 A company of dizzy-headed men.
▪ II. dizzy, v.|ˈdɪzɪ|
[OE. had dysiᵹan, -eᵹian, dysian to be foolish, to act or talk foolishly = OFris. dusia, whence the intr. sense 1; but the trans. sense seems to be a later formation, f. the adjective in its modern form and sense.]
†1. intr. To act foolishly or stupidly. Obs.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. v. §2 Þonne dyseᵹaþ se þe þonne wile hwilc sæd oþfæstan þam dryᵹum furum. a1275Prov. ælfred 466 in O.E. Misc. 131 Ac [gif] he drinkit and desiet þere a morȝe, so þat he fordrunken desiende werchet.
†b. To talk foolishly, blaspheme (in OE.).
c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark ii. 7 Hwi spycð þes þus . he dyseᵹað. Ibid. Luke xxii. 65 Maneᵹa oðre þing hiᵹ him to cwædon dysiᵹende.
2. trans. To make dizzy or giddy; to cause (any sense) to reel; to produce a swimming sensation in, to turn the head of.
1501Douglas Pal. Hon. Prol. 109 And with that gleme sa desyit was my micht. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. ii. 174 Not the dreadfull spout..Shall dizzie with more clamour Neptunes eare In his discent, then [etc.]. 1663Cowley Cutter of Coleman St. v. xiii, You turn my Head, you dizzy me. 1785A. Grant Lett. fr. Mountains (1813) II. xix. 99 It dizzies one to look down from the tower. 1820Southey Lodore, Confounding, astounding, Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound.
3. To render unsteady in brain or mind; to bewilder or confuse mentally.
1604Shakes. Ham. v. ii. 119 (Qo. 2) To deuide him inuentorially would dosie [Qo. 3 dazzie, Qq. 4 & 5 dizzie] th' arithmaticke of memory. 1801Hel. M. Williams Sk. Fr. Rep. I. i. 7 That wild and chimerical equality, the fumes of which dizzy the head of the demagogue. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxi, Giving her so many..charges, that a head less systematic and business-like than Miss Ophelia's would have been utterly dizzied and confounded.
absol.1864J. H. Newman Apol. 378 All this is a vision to dizzy and appal.
Hence ˈdizzied ppl. a., ˈdizzying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1804J. Grahame Sabbath 20 The dizzying mill-wheel rests. 1823Chalmers Serm. I. 343 In the din and dizzying of incessant labour. 1853Felton Fam. Lett. xiv. (1865) 136 The dizzying effect of height. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 242 With dizzied head upon the ground he fell. |