† giddiheadn.
Obsolete.
Giddiness, folly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [noun]
giddiheadc1275
giddinessa1290
lighthead1340
vanityc1386
glaikitnessa1500
idleness1535
levity1564
emptiness1577
vainness1591
frivolousnessa1631
volageness1633
grollery1637
brain-giddinessa1652
desipience1656
desipiencya1682
frothinessa1716
inanity1756
frivolity1796
unpracticalness1828
unpracticality1840
bird-wittedness1854
scattiness1959
c1275 Duty Christ. 60 in Old Eng. Misc. 143 Vre gydihede.
c1305 St. Katherine 13 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 90 Here gydihede Heo seȝ honoure þe maumetz.
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