dizzilyadv.
/ˈdɪzɪli/ In a dizzy or giddy manner.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adverb]
unwiselyc897
dizzilyc1175
folly?c1225
canglichec1230
mazedlya1250
follilyc1330
unskilfully1340
unwittily1362
lewdlyc1380
nicelya1387
fondlya1450
nicea1450
foolishlyc1450
foliously1481
ineptly1523
peevishly?1529
simply1535
insipiently1536
senselessly1561
fonly1579
sillilyc1598
perperously1657
insipidly1699
daftly1724
silly1731
stupid?1757
dawkinly1763
fool-like1800
unsagely1801
spoonily1861
assishly1863
ill-advisedly1879
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adverb]
dizzilyc1175
hiddy-giddya1525
vertiginously1766
giddily1801
dizzyingly1925
a1000 Solomon & Saturn 228 Se Godes cunnaþ ful dyslice.]
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 119 Þa þe heom duseliche folȝiað.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 210 He valknyt and rais all desaly [1489 Adv. disily].
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 425 He gert him galay disyly.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 355 in Shorter Poems (1967) 30 My dasyt hed fordullyt dissyly [1579 Edinb. disselie].
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. ix. 142 Dizzily rolls her brain.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems cv. 2 They with pitchforks hurl Mentula dizzily down.
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