I feel giddy
I feel not well
TRANSLATION
giddy = sich schwindelig oder leichtsinnig fühlen (woerterbuch.info) --- GOOGLE INDEX giddy: approximately 7,600,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Thatcher leaves London hospital -The 82-year-old former UK prime minister spent the night at St Thomas' Hospital in London after falling ill at a House of Lords dinner. Her spokesman said she felt "GIDDY and queasy". However, she waved to photographers as she walked to a waiting car as she left hospital.
(BBC News)
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It always makes one a little GIDDY at first…
- Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
(BBC News)
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It always makes one a little GIDDY at first…
- Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
Did you
know?
giddy
adjective/transitive verb
- having or causing a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall or stagger; dizzy
- excitable and frivolous
(Compact Oxford English Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Giddy refers to fairly lightweight experiences or situations, but at one time it had to do with profound intellectual thoughts and knowledge.
Giddy can be traced back to the same Germanic root "gud" that has given us the word God. The Germanic word "gudigaz" formed on this root meant "possessed by a god." This can be a rather unbalancing experience, and so it is not surprising that the Old English descendant of gudigaz - gidig - referred to being crazy or possessed by an evil spirit.
Nor is it surprising that gidi, the Middle English development of gidig, meant the same thing, in addition to foolish, mad (used of an animal), dizzy, uncertain or unstable. The current sense of "light-hearted, frivolous" illustrates just how far removed giddy is from its original religious sense.
(adapted from the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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SYNONYMS
(dizzy)
light-headed, punchy, reeling, rocky, slaphappy, unbalanced, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vertiginous, whirling, woozy
(frivolous)
bubbleheaded, flaky, flighty, foolish, harebrained, scatterbrained, silly, whimsical
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"If you feel giddly, please take a seat for a few moments."
adjective/transitive verb
- having or causing a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall or stagger; dizzy
- excitable and frivolous
(Compact Oxford English Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Giddy refers to fairly lightweight experiences or situations, but at one time it had to do with profound intellectual thoughts and knowledge.
Giddy can be traced back to the same Germanic root "gud" that has given us the word God. The Germanic word "gudigaz" formed on this root meant "possessed by a god." This can be a rather unbalancing experience, and so it is not surprising that the Old English descendant of gudigaz - gidig - referred to being crazy or possessed by an evil spirit.
Nor is it surprising that gidi, the Middle English development of gidig, meant the same thing, in addition to foolish, mad (used of an animal), dizzy, uncertain or unstable. The current sense of "light-hearted, frivolous" illustrates just how far removed giddy is from its original religious sense.
(adapted from the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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SYNONYMS
(dizzy)
light-headed, punchy, reeling, rocky, slaphappy, unbalanced, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vertiginous, whirling, woozy
(frivolous)
bubbleheaded, flaky, flighty, foolish, harebrained, scatterbrained, silly, whimsical
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"If you feel giddly, please take a seat for a few moments."
