attended with or causing dizziness: a giddy climb.
frivolous and lighthearted; impulsive; flighty: a giddy young person.
verb (used with or without object),gid·died,gid·dy·ing.
to make or become giddy.
Origin of giddy
before 1000; Middle English gidy,Old English gidig mad (as variant of *gydig), derivative of godGod, presumably originally “possessed by a divine being”
It’s about taking time to process a shared, giddy leap into the future with the person you love most—and just because you can’t trek on a glacier doesn’t mean your love is anything less of an adventure.
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His giddy glee turns sickening when you consider the coldhearted inhumanity that necessarily lies beneath.
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Afterwards, a slew of major NBA reporters did their best to quell the giddy, growing mob.
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For the past week, political junkies throughout my home city of Chicago have been rubbing our hands in giddy anticipation.
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And so Her envisions a future that would have made Steve Jobs giddy.
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As much as I was transfixed by every second of this past season of Louie, Veep just made me giddy.
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I staggered to my feet, but felt so weak and giddy that I was compelled to fall back into a chair.
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She was giddy, as if she had stooped too long over a hot fire and risen abruptly.
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Young, giddy, inexperienced and wilful, she was cast headlong into the most profligate court of Christendom.
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If that giddy damsel can tell me the meeting in the garden was not by her own consent, I will again restore her to my confidence.
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I mean to write now until I have made you as giddy as a dancing dervish!
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British Dictionary definitions for giddy
giddy
/ (ˈɡɪdɪ) /
adjective-dieror-diest
affected with a reeling sensation and feeling as if about to fall; dizzy
causing or tending to cause vertigo
impulsive; scatterbrained
my giddy auntan exclamation of surprise
verb-dies, -dyingor-died
to make or become giddy
Derived forms of giddy
giddily, adverbgiddiness, noun
Word Origin for giddy
Old English gydig mad, frenzied, possessed by God; related to God