Giddy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.

   “The man became giddy upon standing up so fast.”

2. sıfat Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.

   “They climbed to a giddy height.”

3. sıfat Moving around something or spinning rapidly.

   “To ſpoil Antiquities of hammerd ſteele, / And turn the giddy round of Fortunes vvheele.”

4. sıfat Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous.

   “The Biſhop, and the Duke of Gloſters men, / Forbidden late to carry any VVeapon, / Haue fill'd their Pockets full of peeble ſtones; / And banding themſelues in contrary parts, / Doe pelt ſo faſt at one anothers Pate, / That many haue their giddy braynes knockt out: […]”

5. sıfat Used as an intensifier.

   “'E isn't one o' the reg'lar Line, nor 'e isn't one of the crew. / 'E's a kind of a giddy harumfrodite—soldier an' sailor too!”

6. sıfat Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.

   “The boy was giddy when he opened his birthday presents.”

7. sıfat Feeling great anger; furious, raging.
8. sıfat 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.
9. sıfat Of a thing, especially a ship: unsteady, as if dizzy.

   “The giddy Ship ran round; the Tempeſt tore / Her Maſt, and over-board the Rudder bore.”

10. isim Someone or something that is frivolous or impulsive.

    “But the giddy, the idle, and the frivolous part of the vvorld vvill inceſſantly purſue a phantom, and graſp a ſhadovv.”

11. isim Synonym of gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”).
12. fiil To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy.

    “A nevv faſhion of apparrell creepeth no ſooner into vſe, but preſently he blameth and diſpraiſeth the olde, and that vvith ſo earneſt a reſolution, and vniverſall a conſent, that you vvould ſay, it is ſome kinde of madnes, or ſelfe-fond humor, that giddieth his vnderſtanding.”

13. fiil To become dizzy or unsteady.

    “Giddied, he gave up a moment's purchase of ground.”

14. fiil To move around something or spin rapidly; to reel; to whirl.

    “[B]y chance, a sudden north-wind fetch'd, / With an extreme sea, quite about again / Our whole endeavours, and our course constrain / To giddy round, and with our bow'd sails greet / Dreadful Maleia, calling back our fleet / As far forth as Cythera.”

15. özel isim A surname.