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Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- (predicative only) Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.
- (attributive) Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.
- Moving around something or spinning rapidly.
- Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous.
- (dated) Used as an intensifier.
- Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.
- (British, dialectal) Feeling great anger; furious, raging.
- (British, dialectal, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by gid, which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly.
- (obsolete, figuratively) Of a thing, especially a ship: unsteady, as if dizzy.
Substantiivi
- Someone or something that is frivolous or impulsive.
- (British, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Synonym of gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae)”.
Verbi
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy.
- To become dizzy or unsteady.
- (obsolete) To move around something or spin rapidly; to reel; to whirl.
Esimerkit
- The man became giddy upon standing up so fast.
- They climbed to a giddy height.
- Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
- The boy was giddy when he opened his birthday presents.
- In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never flout at me for what I have said against it, for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
- Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm,
- And make mistakes for manhood to reform.
- I feel giddy.
- The girls were giddy with excitement about the trip.
- The troopers were worried about crossing the giddy bridge.
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