giddyadj.

Brit.

/ˈɡɪdi/, U.S.

/ˈɡɪdi/

Forms: Old English gidig, Middle English gidi(e, gidy, gydi(e, ( guydi), Middle English gedy, 1500s–1600s giddie, gyddy, 1500s– giddy.

Etymology: Old English gidig insane, is shown by its guttural initial to be a graphic variant of *gydig < prehistoric *gudīgo- , apparently < Old Germanic *gudo^m god n. and int. The primary sense thus appears to be ‘possessed by a god, ἔνθεος ’; compare Old English ylfig insane, lit. ‘elf-possessed’, similarly < ælf elf n.¹

†1.

a. Mad, insane, foolish, stupid. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [adjective]

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bubble-headed1827

tomfoolish1838

bird-brained1892

tottle1894

fluffy1898

scatty1911

wandery1912

scattery1924

twitterpated1943

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

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skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

c1000 O.E. Gloss. (Napier) I. 5009 Limphaticum, þæne gidiȝan.

c1200 Winteney Rule St. Benet (1888) vii. 41 Se gidie [L. stultus] on his hleæhtre his stefene onhefð.

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 290 Hi hit seggeþ wel ilome Þat me ne chide wiþ þe gidie.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1542 He [Nero] bicom sone þer after pur gidy & wod.

a1300 Leg. Rood (1871) 58 Þou gidi [v.r. wode] hound quaþ Seint quiriac.

b. dialect. Mad with anger, furious.

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1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 21 Giddy, mad with anger.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Giddy, furious, heated with anger.

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words

1896 W. W. Skeat & T. Hallam Pegge's Two Coll. Derbicisms Giddy, mad; as a giddy horse, one that is wild or untam'd.

a. Having a confused sensation of swimming or whirling in the head, with proneness to fall; affected with vertigo, dizzy.[This sense appears to be first exemplified in the compound turngiddy n. and adj. ]

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adjective]

dizzyc1340

turngiddy1398

turn-sickc1440

lighta1500

light-headeda1500

dozy1530

swimec1540

giddy1570

swimming1607

vertiginous1608

vertiginal1612

vertiginous1621

vertigious1623

hiddy-giddy1629

swimmering1650

wheel-sick1670

giddyish1711

swimmy1836

whizzy1866

dizzied1870

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hiii/2 Gyddie, vertiginosus.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lx. 12 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 66 Dull horror was our drinck, We drincking giddy grew.

a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James V in Wks. (1711) 110 His Brains having been a little giddy (like one looking from a great Height) by his Advancement to Honours and Place in Court.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xviii. sig. Hh4^v My Head began to grow giddy.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xxvi. 150 They seem to me drunk and giddy with a false notion of Liberty.

1821 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 51 The Monk is as straight as a poplar tree, Gog is as giddy as Gog may be!

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 78 For the first time during the journey he grew giddy.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 148 I felt at first giddy and faint, as if I had received a blow from the expert hand of a boxer.

†b. transferred. Of a ship: Staggering as if dizzy.

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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [adjective] > rolling and pitching

labouringa1616

laboursome1625

hawse-full1692

giddy1700

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Ceyx & Alcyone in Fables 368 The giddy Ship ran round.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 79 Now here, now there, the giddy ships are born.

c. Causing or apt to produce dizziness or swimming in the head, rendering dizzy.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adjective] > causing

giddy1585

dizzy1608

vertiginous1649

dizzying1804

giddying1820

heady1898

1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. iii. 49 If thou sowe the giddie darnell of humane traditions, looke for like fruite.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iv. 17 As we pact along, Vpon the giddy footing of the hatches.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (2nd issue) iii. i. 18 Vpon the high and giddy masse.

1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe iv. 57 Time these giddy vapours will remove.

1718 M. Prior Power 124 The giddy precipice, and the dangerous flood.

1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 151 From infancy through childhood's giddy maze.

1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 54 Whose giddy top the morning loved to guild.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 81 The giddy cliffs which surround them.

d. Whirling or circling round with bewildering rapidity.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > whirling > with mad rapidity

giddy1594

dizzy1791

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. G3^v To..turne the giddy round of Fortunes wheele.

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) ix. vi. 422 With swift and giddy motions.

1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xviii. 695 So whirls a Wheel, in giddy Circle tost.

1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 21 While above the giddy tempest flies.

a1793 G. White On Weather in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1802) II. 268 The happy school-boy brings transported forth His long-forgotten scourge, and giddy gig.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 85 Amid his senses' giddy wheel.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 214 The strong tempestuous treble..Ran into its giddiest whirl of sound.

1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems iv. 13 I lean across the paddock pale And gaze upon the giddy mill.

e. dialect. Of a sheep: Affected with the ‘gid’. giddy mutton (see quot. 1881).

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1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Giddy,..a term applied to sheep that have hydatides on the brain.

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Lambs and sheep are said to be giddy when they take to turning round in an aimless sort of way..When the animal is killed as it generally is on manifesting this gyratory tendency, the meat is known as ‘giddy lamb’, or ‘giddy mutton’.

a. Of persons, their attributes and actions: Mentally intoxicated, ‘elated to thoughtlessness’ (Johnson); incapable of or indisposed to serious thought or steady attention; easily carried away by excitement; ‘light-headed, frivolous, flighty, inconstant. to play the giddy goat: see goat n. and adj. Phrases 2; to play the giddy ox: to behave foolishly or frivolously; to play the fool. Chiefly transferred from sense 2; but some of the uses may descend directly from sense 1.

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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [adjective]

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lightOE

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tickle or light of the sear?1530

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corky-brained1699

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halokit1724

shatter-brained1727

scattered-brained1747

shatter-witted1775

flippant1791

butterfly-brained1796

scatter-brained1804

gossamer1806

shandy-pated1806

shattery1820

barmy-brained1823

papilionaceous1832

flirtatious1834

flirty1840

Micawberish1859

scatterheaded1867

flibberty-gibberty1879

thistledown1897

shatter-pated1901

trivial-minded1905

scattery1924

fizgig1928

ditzy1979

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > act absurdly [verb (intransitive)]

buffoonize1611

buffoona1672

anticize1871

to play the giddy ox1892

a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Aii^v So diuerse ranne the giddy peoples minde.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 81 Such as do alway sauor of a certaine giddy imagination.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. i. 86 [They] Doe pelt so fast at one anothers Pate, That many haue their giddy braynes knockt out.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §698 It may be Gnats and Flies haue their Imagination more mutable and giddy.

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 118 Giddie fantastique Poets.

1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 48 Many they shall reclaime from obscure and giddy sects.

1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 7 Govern'd by the Moon, the giddy Jews Tread the same track when she the Prime renews: And once in twenty Years..By natural Instinct they change their Lord.

1713 R. Steele in Guardian 17 Mar. 2/1 The giddy part of the Sex will have it she is in Love.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xix. 213 She said twenty giddy things that looked like joy.

1779 F. Burney Let. 12 Oct. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 375 A mere playing, giddy, romping Child.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. xv. 301 Art..still allures our giddy admiration.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 26 And giddy girls of gay fifteen Mimic his manner and his mien.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. v. vii. 92 She..thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

1892 Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday 19 Mar. 91/2 Fanny Robinson was flighty; she played the giddy ox—I mean, heifer.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xiii. 47 Don't play the giddy ox.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 7 I don't want to be debagged! Don't you play the giddy ox with me!

absolute.1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 45 'Twould warn the Giddy and awake the Gay.1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. ii. i. 125 She seemed born not only to captivate the giddy, but to turn the heads of the sage.

b. Used (often ironically) as an intensive; also used in the expression of surprise my giddy aunt (see aunt n. Phrases).

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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > very great or extreme

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overpassinga1382

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most?c1430

extremec1460

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immortal?c1550

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three-piled1598

thundering1618

devilish1639

shrewda1643

deadly1660

woundy1681

vast1696

monstrous1711

mortal1716

terrific1743

hell-fired1754

hellish1764

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severe1805

awful1818

all-fired1829

terrible1829

quare and1847

ferocious1877

pluperfect1889

raging1889

giddy1896

utter1898

stiff1905

1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 171 'E's a kind of a giddy harumfrodite—soldier an' sailor too!

1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 28 King'll have to prove his charges up to the giddy hilt.

1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 112 I spoke the giddy truth... I said I didn't know.

1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 142 Hullo. What's the giddy jest?

1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps iv. 97 A giddy lot Scudder's friends cared for peace and reform.

1919 ‘W. N. P. Barbellion’ Jrnl. Disappointed Man 268 Oh my giddy aunt!

1924 A. J. Small Frozen Gold iii. 92 The giddy part of it is that our strike isn't up north at all.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

giddy-brain n.

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a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden i. i. 17 in Five New Playes (1659) This kicksy wincy Giddibrain will spoil all.

1796 F. Jacson Plain Sense (ed. 2) I. 199 Lady Almeria was a little giddy-brain.

giddy-head n. (Said of a person.)

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1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. ii. 29 Before he..condemne those for giddyheads that will not take his word for proofs.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 106 The Heir of Bantam is..of little Credit, being a Giddy~head.

giddy-brained adj.

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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 19 Certain giddy brained men.

1682 T. Otway Venice Preserv'd iii. 25 Useless, giddy-brain'd Asse!

1784 Denouement 108 A foolish penchant for a little giddy brained girl.

giddy-drunk adj.

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1827 S. T. Coleridge Let. in Mem. H. F. Cary (1847) II. 176 Even as a man giddy-drunk throws his arms about, and clasps hold of a barber's block for support.

giddy-headed adj.

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1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 148 So much the greater ought your bells to be, by how much more you see your hawke gyddyheaded.

1639 G. Daniel Vervicensis 395 Oh the sickly tast Of giddie-headed Popularitie.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xlvi. 104 Dangling after a parcel of giddy-headed girls.

giddy-paced adj.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iv. 6 These most briske and giddy-paced times.

giddy-pated adj.

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1604 R. Armin Ded. in G. Dugdale Disc. Pract. Eliz. Caldwell sig. A2^v We haue many giddie pated Poets, that coulde haue published this Report with more eloquence.

1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft viii. 240 These enthusiastic and giddy-pated girls.

giddy-witted adj.

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c1830 R. Sullivan in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. (1877) V. 173/1 Betty was a reckless, giddy-witted baggage.

C2.

giddy-gander n. dialect = gandergoose n.

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1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Giddygander, the orchis. Dorset.

1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. Giddygander, the early purple orchis (orchis mascula)..and other common species of orchis.

giddy-go-round n. something that revolves with giddy rapidity, esp. a ‘merry-go-round’ or ‘roundabout’.

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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride > merry-go-round

carousel1673

whimsic chair?c1684

whimsy1684

merry-go-round1729

roundabout1763

turnabout1789

whirligig1816

spin-'em-round1851

go-round1857

whirly-go-round1865

merry-go-around1873

giddy-go-round1879

go-around1888

razzle-dazzle1890

joy-wheel1911

chairoplane1922

whip1925

Noah's Ark1945

waltzer1961

swirl1962

1879 J. H. Ewing Jackanapes (1884) iii. 20 His friend could not..ride in the giddy-go-round.

1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 65 He put his arm round av' me an' I came into the sun, the hills an' the rocks skippin' big giddy-go-rounds.

giddy-goating n. acting the ‘giddy goat’, fooling about.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > antic > indulgence in

giddy-goating1891

monkeying1932

1891 S. J. Duncan Amer. Girl in London 79 A little giddy-goating does nobody any harm.

† giddy-lumpishness n. Obsolete heaviness and dizziness (of the head).

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1678 Young Man's Calling 389 He [prince Henry] grew more pale than formerly..yet he did not much complain, but only of giddy-lumpishness in his forehead.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	giddy
释义	giddyn. Brit. /ˈɡɪdi/, U.S. /ˈɡɪdi/ Etymology: < giddy adj. = gid n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > staggers or gid turn?1523 sturdiness1552 turn-sick1566 sturdy1570 dazy1577 stavers1597 (to have) the staggers1599 gid1601 giddy1603 turnabout1605 stacker1610 turning-evil1614 megrims1639 blind staggers1784 the goggles1793 dazing1799 stomach-staggers1831 turn-sick1834 turn-side1845 phalaris staggers1946 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures xxi. 136 If any of you haue a sheepe sicke of the giddies, or an hogge of the mumps, or [etc.]. 1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) II. 705 The Turn or Giddy is a disorder with which these animals [sheep] are often seized. 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Giddy, a disease of the brain in sheep. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). giddyadj. Brit. /ˈɡɪdi/, U.S. /ˈɡɪdi/ Forms: Old English gidig, Middle English gidi(e, gidy, gydi(e, ( guydi), Middle English gedy, 1500s–1600s giddie, gyddy, 1500s– giddy. Etymology: Old English gidig insane, is shown by its guttural initial to be a graphic variant of gydig < prehistoric gudīgo- , apparently < Old Germanic gudo^m god n. and int. The primary sense thus appears to be ‘possessed by a god, ἔνθεος* ’; compare Old English ylfig insane, lit. ‘elf-possessed’, similarly < ælf elf n.¹ †1. a. Mad, insane, foolish, stupid. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [adjective] idlec825 giddyc1000 volage?a1366 apec1370 foolisha1382 vain1390 idleful1483 volageous1487 glaikit1488 cock-brained1530 apish1532 empty1550 sillyc1555 frivolous?1563 tickle-headed1583 light-braineda1593 frothy1593 owlish1596 bird-witted1605 empty-headed1614 idle-headed1614 empty-pateda1628 marmosetical1630 grollish1637 feather-headed1647 nonsense1647 whirl-crowned1648 feather-brained1649 swimmering1650 soft-pated1651 weather-headeda1652 shuttlecock1660 drum-headed1664 chicken-brained1678 halokit1724 desipient1727 shatter-pated1727 scattered-brained1747 light-thoughted1777 scatter-brained1804 shandy-pated1806 hellicat1815 feather-pated1819 inane1819 weather-brained1826 bubble-headed1827 tomfoolish1838 bird-brained1892 tottle1894 fluffy1898 scatty1911 wandery1912 scattery1924 twitterpated1943 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 c1000 O.E. Gloss. (Napier) I. 5009 Limphaticum, þæne gidiȝan. c1200 Winteney Rule St. Benet (1888) vii. 41 Se gidie [L. stultus] on his hleæhtre his stefene onhefð. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 290 Hi hit seggeþ wel ilome Þat me ne chide wiþ þe gidie. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1542 He [Nero] bicom sone þer after pur gidy & wod. a1300 Leg. Rood (1871) 58 Þou gidi [v.r. wode] hound quaþ Seint quiriac. b. dialect. Mad with anger, furious. ΚΠ 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 21 Giddy, mad with anger. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Giddy, furious, heated with anger. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words 1896 W. W. Skeat & T. Hallam Pegge's Two Coll. Derbicisms Giddy, mad; as a giddy horse, one that is wild or untam'd. 2. a. Having a confused sensation of swimming or whirling in the head, with proneness to fall; affected with vertigo, dizzy.[This sense appears to be first exemplified in the compound turngiddy n. and adj. ] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adjective] dizzyc1340 turngiddy1398 turn-sickc1440 lighta1500 light-headeda1500 dozy1530 swimec1540 giddy1570 swimming1607 vertiginous1608 vertiginal1612 vertiginous1621 vertigious1623 hiddy-giddy1629 swimmering1650 wheel-sick1670 giddyish1711 swimmy1836 whizzy1866 dizzied1870 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hiii/2 Gyddie, vertiginosus. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lx. 12 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 66 Dull horror was our drinck, We drincking giddy grew. a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James V in Wks. (1711) 110 His Brains having been a little giddy (like one looking from a great Height) by his Advancement to Honours and Place in Court. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xviii. sig. Hh4^v My Head began to grow giddy. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xxvi. 150 They seem to me drunk and giddy with a false notion of Liberty. 1821 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 51 The Monk is as straight as a poplar tree, Gog is as giddy as Gog may be! 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 78 For the first time during the journey he grew giddy. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 148 I felt at first giddy and faint, as if I had received a blow from the expert hand of a boxer. †b. transferred. Of a ship: Staggering as if dizzy. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [adjective] > rolling and pitching labouringa1616 laboursome1625 hawse-full1692 giddy1700 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Ceyx & Alcyone in Fables 368 The giddy Ship ran round. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 79 Now here, now there, the giddy ships are born. c. Causing or apt to produce dizziness or swimming in the head, rendering dizzy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adjective] > causing giddy1585 dizzy1608 vertiginous1649 dizzying1804 giddying1820 heady1898 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. iii. 49 If thou sowe the giddie darnell of humane traditions, looke for like fruite. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iv. 17 As we pact along, Vpon the giddy footing of the hatches. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (2nd issue) iii. i. 18 Vpon the high and giddy masse. View more context for this quotation 1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe iv. 57 Time these giddy vapours will remove. 1718 M. Prior Power 124 The giddy precipice, and the dangerous flood. 1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 151 From infancy through childhood's giddy maze. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 54 Whose giddy top the morning loved to guild. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 81 The giddy cliffs which surround them. d. Whirling or circling round with bewildering rapidity. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > whirling > with mad rapidity giddy1594 dizzy1791 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. G3^v To..turne the giddy round of Fortunes wheele. View more context for this quotation a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) ix. vi. 422 With swift and giddy motions. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xviii. 695 So whirls a Wheel, in giddy Circle tost. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 21 While above the giddy tempest flies. a1793 G. White On Weather in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1802) II. 268 The happy school-boy brings transported forth His long-forgotten scourge, and giddy gig. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 85 Amid his senses' giddy wheel. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 214 The strong tempestuous treble..Ran into its giddiest whirl of sound. 1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems iv. 13 I lean across the paddock pale And gaze upon the giddy mill. e. dialect. Of a sheep: Affected with the ‘gid’. giddy mutton (see quot. 1881). ΚΠ 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Giddy,..a term applied to sheep that have hydatides on the brain. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Lambs and sheep are said to be giddy when they take to turning round in an aimless sort of way..When the animal is killed as it generally is on manifesting this gyratory tendency, the meat is known as ‘giddy lamb’, or ‘giddy mutton’. 3. a. Of persons, their attributes and actions: Mentally intoxicated, ‘elated to thoughtlessness’ (Johnson); incapable of or indisposed to serious thought or steady attention; easily carried away by excitement; ‘light-headed, frivolous, flighty, inconstant. to play the giddy goat: see goat n. and adj. Phrases 2; to play the giddy ox: to behave foolishly or frivolously; to play the fool. Chiefly transferred from sense 2; but some of the uses may descend directly from sense 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [adjective] lightlyeOE lightOE lightsomea1425 flying1509 light-minded?1529 tickle or light of the sear?1530 giddya1547 light-headed1549 gidded1563 giddish1566 fling-brained1570 tickle-headed1583 toyish1584 shallow1594 leger1598 corky1601 barmy1602 airy1609 unfirma1616 unballast1622 cork-brained1630 unballasted1644 kickshawa1655 unserious1655 unstudious1663 flirtishc1665 caper-witteda1670 shatter-headedc1686 corky-brained1699 flea-lugged1724 halokit1724 shatter-brained1727 scattered-brained1747 shatter-witted1775 flippant1791 butterfly-brained1796 scatter-brained1804 gossamer1806 shandy-pated1806 shattery1820 barmy-brained1823 papilionaceous1832 flirtatious1834 flirty1840 Micawberish1859 scatterheaded1867 flibberty-gibberty1879 thistledown1897 shatter-pated1901 trivial-minded1905 scattery1924 fizgig1928 ditzy1979 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > act absurdly [verb (intransitive)] buffoonize1611 buffoona1672 anticize1871 to play the giddy ox1892 a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Aii^v So diuerse ranne the giddy peoples minde. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 81 Such as do alway sauor of a certaine giddy imagination. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. i. 86 [They] Doe pelt so fast at one anothers Pate, That many haue their giddy braynes knockt out. View more context for this quotation 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §698 It may be Gnats and Flies haue their Imagination more mutable and giddy. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 118 Giddie fantastique Poets. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 48 Many they shall reclaime from obscure and giddy sects. 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 7 Govern'd by the Moon, the giddy Jews Tread the same track when she the Prime renews: And once in twenty Years..By natural Instinct they change their Lord. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 17 Mar. 2/1 The giddy part of the Sex will have it she is in Love. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xix. 213 She said twenty giddy things that looked like joy. 1779 F. Burney Let. 12 Oct. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 375 A mere playing, giddy, romping Child. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. xv. 301 Art..still allures our giddy admiration. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 26 And giddy girls of gay fifteen Mimic his manner and his mien. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. v. vii. 92 She..thinks she is gay when she is only giddy. 1892 Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday 19 Mar. 91/2 Fanny Robinson was flighty; she played the giddy ox—I mean, heifer. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xiii. 47 Don't play the giddy ox. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 7 I don't want to be debagged! Don't you play the giddy ox with me! absolute.1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 45 'Twould warn the Giddy and awake the Gay.1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. ii. i. 125 She seemed born not only to captivate the giddy, but to turn the heads of the sage. b. Used (often ironically) as an intensive; also used in the expression of surprise my giddy aunt (see aunt n. Phrases). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > very great or extreme strangec1380 overpassinga1382 passinga1387 most?c1430 extremec1460 horriblea1464 violenta1500 mainc1540 immortal?c1550 exquisite1552 sore1555 three-piled1598 thundering1618 devilish1639 shrewda1643 deadly1660 woundy1681 vast1696 monstrous1711 mortal1716 terrific1743 hell-fired1754 hellish1764 colossal1794 severe1805 awful1818 all-fired1829 terrible1829 quare and1847 ferocious1877 pluperfect1889 raging1889 giddy1896 utter1898 stiff1905 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 171 'E's a kind of a giddy harumfrodite—soldier an' sailor too! 1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 28 King'll have to prove his charges up to the giddy hilt. 1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 112 I spoke the giddy truth... I said I didn't know. 1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 142 Hullo. What's the giddy jest? 1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps iv. 97 A giddy lot Scudder's friends cared for peace and reform. 1919 ‘W. N. P. Barbellion’ Jrnl. Disappointed Man 268 Oh my giddy aunt! 1924 A. J. Small Frozen Gold iii. 92 The giddy part of it is that our strike isn't up north at all. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. giddy-brain n. ΚΠ a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden i. i. 17 in Five New Playes (1659) This kicksy wincy Giddibrain will spoil all. 1796 F. Jacson Plain Sense (ed. 2) I. 199 Lady Almeria was a little giddy-brain. giddy-head n. (Said of a person.) ΚΠ 1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. ii. 29 Before he..condemne those for giddyheads that will not take his word for proofs. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 106 The Heir of Bantam is..of little Credit, being a Giddy~head. b. giddy-brained adj. ΚΠ 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 19 Certain giddy brained men. 1682 T. Otway Venice Preserv'd iii. 25 Useless, giddy-brain'd Asse! 1784 Denouement 108 A foolish penchant for a little giddy brained girl. giddy-drunk adj. ΚΠ 1827 S. T. Coleridge Let. in Mem. H. F. Cary (1847) II. 176 Even as a man giddy-drunk throws his arms about, and clasps hold of a barber's block for support. giddy-headed adj. ΚΠ 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 148 So much the greater ought your bells to be, by how much more you see your hawke gyddyheaded. 1639 G. Daniel Vervicensis 395 Oh the sickly tast Of giddie-headed Popularitie. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xlvi. 104 Dangling after a parcel of giddy-headed girls. giddy-paced adj. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iv. 6 These most briske and giddy-paced times. View more context for this quotation giddy-pated adj. ΚΠ 1604 R. Armin Ded. in G. Dugdale Disc. Pract. Eliz. Caldwell sig. A2^v We haue many giddie pated Poets, that coulde haue published this Report with more eloquence. 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft viii. 240 These enthusiastic and giddy-pated girls. giddy-witted adj. ΚΠ c1830 R. Sullivan in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. (1877) V. 173/1 Betty was a reckless, giddy-witted baggage. C2. giddy-gander n. dialect = gandergoose n. ΚΠ 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Giddygander, the orchis. Dorset. 1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. Giddygander, the early purple orchis (orchis mascula)..and other common species of orchis. giddy-go-round n. something that revolves with giddy rapidity, esp. a ‘merry-go-round’ or ‘roundabout’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride > merry-go-round carousel1673 whimsic chair?c1684 whimsy1684 merry-go-round1729 roundabout1763 turnabout1789 whirligig1816 spin-'em-round1851 go-round1857 whirly-go-round1865 merry-go-around1873 giddy-go-round1879 go-around1888 razzle-dazzle1890 joy-wheel1911 chairoplane1922 whip1925 Noah's Ark1945 waltzer1961 swirl1962 1879 J. H. Ewing Jackanapes (1884) iii. 20 His friend could not..ride in the giddy-go-round. 1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 65 He put his arm round av' me an' I came into the sun, the hills an' the rocks skippin' big giddy-go-rounds. giddy-goating n. acting the ‘giddy goat’, fooling about. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > antic > indulgence in giddy-goating1891 monkeying1932 1891 S. J. Duncan Amer. Girl in London 79 A little giddy-goating does nobody any harm. † giddy-lumpishness n. Obsolete heaviness and dizziness (of the head). ΚΠ 1678 Young Man's Calling 389 He [prince Henry] grew more pale than formerly..yet he did not much complain, but only of giddy-lumpishness in his forehead. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). giddyv. Brit. /ˈɡɪdi/, U.S. /ˈɡɪdi/ Forms: Also 1600s gyddy. Etymology: < giddy adj. 1. transitive. To make or render giddy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > affect with vertigo [verb (transitive)] whirl1593 giddy1596 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. li. 234 Your Darnell giddeth so. 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. viii. 317 So are you gyddied and hurled vp and downe, with euery blast of vaine doctrine. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 28 Betele..giddies the braine. 1710 True Acct. Last Distemper T. Whigg ii. 44 After he had giddy'd his Guests by a Chase of various Meanders and winding ways. 1799 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 284 Oh this strange..scene-shifter, Death!—that giddies one with insecurity. 1889 C. Edwardes Sardinia 163 That he may not be giddied by his perpetual rotations. 2. intransitive. To become giddy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > have vertigo [verb (intransitive)] turnOE swimblea1400 whirl1561 wheel1593 whim1700 reel1701 swim1702 swirl1818 spin1819 giddy1845 1845 S. Judd Margaret (1871) vi. 28 My head swims, my brain giddies. †3. ? To turn round with giddy movement. ΚΠ ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) ix. 135 Had not..a sodaine North~wind fetcht, With an extreame sea, quite about againe, Our whole endeuours; and our course constraine To giddie round; and with our bowd sailes greete Dreadfull Maleia. Derivatives ˈgiddying adj. that makes giddy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adjective] > causing giddy1585 dizzy1608 vertiginous1649 dizzying1804 giddying1820 heady1898 1820 M. Starke Trav. on Continent (1823) ii. 34 The Chapeau, a giddying eminence opposite to Montanvert. 1844 Ld. Houghton Illumin. St. Peter's in Mem. Many Scenes ii. 135 At last that giddying sight took form. a1882 H. W. Longfellow Michael Angelo i. iv You think..my head Swims with the giddying whirl of life about me. 1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge II. iv. 53 One that creeps into the maiden heart like the giddying worm into the sheep's brain. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1603adj.c1000v.1596
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giddyv.

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