| 单词 | giddy |
| 释义 | giddy (once / 1023 pages) adj If you've ever spun in circles until you fell to the ground laughing, you know how it feels to be giddy. This adjective can mean dizzy, elated, or — as in the spinning around example –- a lightheaded, lighthearted combination of the two. The hackneyed phrase "giddy as a schoolgirl" calls forth the image of a kid giggling with her friends over some adolescent foolishness. Giddy has been used to describe someone incapable of serious thought or easily excited as far back as the sixteenth century. Given that, in modern usage, giddy describes someone silly and frivolous, it's interesting to know that the Old English source for this word has a slightly darker tinge: gidig means "insane" or "god-possessed." WORD FAMILYgiddy: giddied, giddier, giddiest, giddily, giddiness+/giddiness: giddinesses USAGE EXAMPLES“I am pretty giddy,” said Mr. Cole as he looked ahead. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) “This is my first foster fail,” she said in a phone interview, sounding not at all defeated, but categorically giddy. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) In October 1979, Dr. Ehrlich told The Wall Street Journal he wasn’t ready to join his giddier colleagues in bidding up stocks. Wall Street Journal(Dec 23, 2016) 1adj lacking seriousness; given to frivolity Syn airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, light-headed, lightheaded, silly frivolous not serious in content or attitude or behavior 2adj having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling had a headache and felt giddy a giddy precipice Syn dizzy, vertiginous, woozy ill, sick affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function |
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