giddygid‧dy /ˈɡɪdi/ adjective 
Greg stared down from the seventh floor and began to feel giddy.2feeling silly, happy, and excited, or showing this feelinggiddy with Sheila felt giddy with excitement.3giddy heights a situation in which you have a lot of success: Although she had been quite a successful model, she had never reached the giddy heights of the Paris fashion world.4old-fashioned silly and not interested in serious things: Fiona’s very pretty but a bit giddy.—giddily adverb—giddiness noun [uncountable]
WORD ORIGINgiddy
Origin:
Old English gydig ‘mentally ill’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- giddy optimism
- a giddy girl
- Drinking champagne always makes me giddy.
- Just watching those kids spinning makes me feel giddy.
- She suddenly felt giddy and had to find somewhere to sit down.
- Actually it felt nice to be giddy.
- But for many days he felt a curious discomfort, almost giddy at times, almost sad at other times.
- Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness.
- I tell her I am tired and giddy from last night's sleeping pill.
- She felt a giddy sensation of ground shifting under her feet.
- She felt a surge of giddy courage.
- Then we broke into giddy laughter.
Longman Language Activatorfeeling unsteady and unable to balance
feeling as if everything is spinning around you and unable to balance: · Sometimes I get dizzy at the top of staircases and escalators.· If you feel dizzy or short of breath, stop exercising immediately.
feeling unsteady and unable to balance, sometimes with the result that you want to be sick: · She suddenly felt giddy and had to find somewhere to sit down.
if someone's head is swimming they feel unsteady, unable to see properly, and as though the room is spinning around them very quickly, for example because they are ill or drunk: · My head was swimming, and the floor seemed to be moving up and down.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Greg stared down from the seventh floor and began to feel giddy.
Greg stared down from the seventh floor and began to feel giddy.PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1feeling slightly sick and unable to balance, because everything seems to be moving SYN dizzy: - The group shows that, even at its current giddy heights, this market is still offering attractive values.
Greg stared down from the seventh floor and began to feel giddy.2feeling silly, happy, and excited, or showing this feelinggiddy with Sheila felt giddy with excitement.3giddy heights a situation in which you have a lot of success: Although she had been quite a successful model, she had never reached the giddy heights of the Paris fashion world.4old-fashioned silly and not interested in serious things: Fiona’s very pretty but a bit giddy.—giddily adverb—giddiness noun [uncountable]