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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GID'DY, a. Vertiginous; reeling; whirling; having in the head a sensation of a circular motion or swimming; or having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall, as in the case of some diseases and of drunkenness. In walking on timber aloft, or looking down a precipice, we are apt to be giddy.
1. That renders giddy; that induces giddiness; as a giddy highth; a giddy precipice.
2. Rotary; whirling; running round with celerity.
The giddy motion of the whirling mill.
3. Inconstant; unstable; changeable.
You are as giddy and volatile as ever.
4. Heedless; thoughtless; wild; roving.
5. Tottering; unfixed.
As we have paced along
Upon the giddy footing of the hatches.
6. Intoxicated; elated to thoughtlessness; rendered wild by excitement or joy.
Art thou not giddy with the fashion too?
GID'DY, v.i. To turn quick.
GID'DY, v.t. To make reeling or unsteady.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff" [syn: dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous]
2: lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles" [syn: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light- headed, lightheaded, silly]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (giddier; -est) Etymology: Middle English gidy mad, foolish, from Old English gydig possessed, mad; akin to Old English god god Date: 14th century 1. a. dizzy <giddy from the unaccustomed exercise> b. causing dizziness <a giddy height> c. whirling rapidly 2. a. lightheartedly silly ; frivolous b. joyfully elated ; euphoric • giddily adverb • giddiness noun II. verb (giddied; giddying) Date: 1602 transitive verb to make giddy intransitive verb to become giddy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & v. --adj. (giddier, giddiest) 1 having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall, stagger, or spin round. 2 a overexcited as a result of success, pleasurable emotion, etc.; mentally intoxicated. b excitable, frivolous. 3 tending to make one giddy. --v.tr. & intr. (-ies, -ied) make or become giddy. Derivatives: giddily adv. giddiness n. Etymology: OE gidig insane, lit. 'possessed by a god'

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Giddy Gid"dy, a. [Compar. Giddier; superl. Giddiest.] [OE. gidi mad, silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw. gidda to shake, tremble.] 1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy. By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed. --Tate. 2. Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice. --Prior. Upon the giddy footing of the hatches. --Shak. 3. Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling. The giddy motion of the whirling mill. --Pope. 4. Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless. ``Giddy, foolish hours.'' --Rowe. ``Giddy chance.'' --Dryden. Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm. --Cowper.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Giddy Gid"dy, v. i. To reel; to whirl. --Chapman.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Giddy Gid"dy, v. t. To make dizzy or unsteady. [Obs.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(giddier, giddiest) 1. If you feel giddy, you feel unsteady and think that you are about to fall over, usually because you are not well. He felt giddy and light-headed. = dizzy ADJ • giddiness A wave of giddiness swept over her. N-UNCOUNT 2. If you feel giddy with delight or excitement, you feel so happy or excited that you find it hard to think or act normally. Anthony was giddy with self-satisfaction... Being there gave me a giddy pleasure. ADJ • giddiness There's almost a giddiness surrounding the talks in Houston.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Vertiginous, dizzy. 2. Changeable, fickle, inconstant, unsteady, mutable, unstable, vacillating, irresolute. 3. Careless, heedless, thoughtless, wild, reckless, headlong, flighty, hair-brained, giddy-brained, light-headed.

Moby Thesaurus

addled, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, babbling, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, brainless, capricious, changeable, changeful, crapulent, crapulous, delirious, desultory, deviable, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, eccentric, empty-headed, erratic, faint, far-gone, fast and loose, featherbrained, featherheaded, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, flustered, fluttery, fou, freakish, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, full, gaga, gay, giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, glorious, happy, harebrain, harebrained, impetuous, impulsive, in liquor, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, infirm, intoxicated, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jolly, light, light-headed, lightheaded, maudlin, mazy, mellow, mercurial, merry, moody, muddled, nappy, off, rambling, ranting, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated, raving, reckless, reeling, restless, roving, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, shapeless, shatterbrained, shifting, shifty, shikker, shuffling, silly, skittish, sodden, sotted, spasmodic, spineless, swimming, thoughtless, tiddly, tipsy, turned around, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, under the influence, undisciplined, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vertiginous, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, witless, woozy, yeasty