giddy
Plural: giddies
Adjective Satellite
- having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
- "had a headache and felt giddy"
- "a giddy precipice"
- lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
Adj
- Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.
- 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.
- Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous.
- Used as an intensifier.
- Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.
- Feeling great anger; furious, raging.
- Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”), which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly.
- Of a thing, especially a ship: unsteady, as if dizzy.
Noun
- Someone or something that is frivolous or impulsive.
- Synonym of gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”).
Verb
Verb Forms: giddied, giddying, giddies
- To make someone feel dizzy or lightheaded.
- To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy.
- To become dizzy or unsteady.
- To move around something or spin rapidly; to reel; to whirl.
Adjective
- Feeling dizzy or lightheaded; frivolous and excitable.
Examples
- I felt GIDDY with excitement after playing a seven-letter word on my first turn.
- The boy was giddy when he opened his birthday presents.
- The man became giddy upon standing up so fast.
- The sheer brilliance of my Words With Friends play would surely GIDDY my opponent.
- They climbed to a giddy height.
Origin / Etymology
The adjective is derived from Middle English gidi, gedy, gydy (“demonically controlled or possessed; crazy, insane; foolish, idiotic, ridiculous, unwise; unsure; (rare) dizzy, shaky; (rare) of an animal: crazed, out of control; a fool”) [and other forms], from Old English gidiġ, gydiġ (“possessed by a demon or spirit, insane, mad”), from Proto-West Germanic *gudīg (“ghostly, spirited”, literally “possessed by a god or spirit”), from *god (“god”) + *-ig, *-g (suffix forming adjectives with the senses of being, doing, or having). The English word is analysable as god + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’, forming adjectives).
The noun and the verb are derived from the adjective.
Synonyms
airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, light-headed, lightheaded, silly, vertiginous, woozy, air-headed, blissed out, blissful, brainsick, changeable, cock-a-hoop, delighted, ecstatic, elated, euphoric, exultant, feather-headed, filled with happiness, flighty, fuzzy, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gid, giddy, giglot, gladsome, gleeful, greatly pleased, inconsistent, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, on cloud nine, orgasmic, over the moon, overjoyed, overlight, rattleheaded, shoogly, thrilled, vertiginate, walking on air, westy
Scrabble Score: 11
giddy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgiddy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
giddy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary