dizzy

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Etymology 1.4 Adjective 1.4.1 Derived terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• dizzie (obsolete)

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdɪzi/
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  Rhymes: -ɪzi

[edit] Etymology

Old English dysiġ, probably related to West Frisian dize, (fog).

[edit] Adjective

dizzy (comparative dizzier, superlative dizziest)

1. having a sensation of turning around; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.

   I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.

2. producing giddiness

   We climbed to a dizzy height.

3. empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous

   My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.

[edit] Derived terms

• dizzily
• dizziness
• dizzyingly

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to dizzy (third-person singular simple present dizzies, present participle dizzying, simple past and past participle dizzied)

1. (transitive) To make dizzy, to bewilder.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 161:

     Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature [...].