Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: giddy
IPA transcription: [ɡ'ɪdi]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly
    Meaning: lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles"
  • Synonyms: dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • What's the giddy hour?
  • His head ached and he was giddy.
  • For a giddy moment I had forgotten this, and tottered.
  • For chanticleer to wake it, -- Or stirring house below, Or giddy bird in orchard, Or early task to do?
  • 'That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first--'
  • The next day, too, Katharine's food was all found fault with, and caught away before she could touch a mouthful, and she was sick and giddy for want of sleep.
  • Who could have imagined, whilst fancy was leading us a giddy dance, that my destined husband was slowly traveling on foot through Russia, Poland, and Germany?
  • She said she had smoked it for twenty years, and "it always makes me giddy!" The writer, in August 1913, saw a woman seated by the roadside in County Down, Ireland, calmly smoking a large briar pipe.
  • He found himself for the first time in his life feeling, as he said, "giddy, jarred, shaken, faint, uncertain of voice and sight, and tread and touch, and dull of spirit." He was obliged to discontinue the course and to rest.
  • 'I don't know what to do!' cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath, and making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings. 'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am as giddy as a drunken man.