dizzy
English
Alternative forms
- dizzie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English disy, dysy, desi, dusy, from Old English dysiġ, dyseġ (“dizzy; foolish; unwise; stupid”), from Proto-Germanic *dusigaz (“stunned; dazed”). Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪzi
Adjective
dizzy (comparative dizzier, superlative dizziest)
- Having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.
- I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.
- (Can we date this quote by Drayton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Alas! his brain was dizzy.
- Producing giddiness.
- We climbed to a dizzy height.
- (Can we date this quote by Macaulay and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
- ...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.
- Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.
- My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- the dizzy multitude
Derived terms
Translations
having a sensation of turning around
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producing giddiness
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empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous
Verb
dizzy (third-person singular simple present dizzies, present participle dizzying, simple past and past participle dizzied)
- (transitive) To make dizzy, to bewilder.
- Template:RQ:Flr Mntgn 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 […].
- (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.
- 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:
- So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times. The contest did not extend beyond the half-hour mark.
- Template:RQ:Flr Mntgn Essays, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.161:
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