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Dizzy
Definitions
- 1 Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, 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; ditzy.
"My new secretary is a dizzy blonde."
- 4 simple, half-witted. UK, Yorkshire, dialectal
"Them as diz ’at is dizzy."
- 1 lacking seriousness; given to frivolity wordnet
- 2 having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling wordnet
- 1 Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and twice prime minister of the United Kingdom. UK, humorous, slang
- 2 A nickname.
- 1 A distributor (device in internal combustion engine). slang
"A service exchange distributor usually needs to be ordered by a motor factor and cost £150-200! I would suggest you use the SD1 dizzy body/cap etc but change the trigger mechanism to a modern electronic/breakerless unit such as the Newtronic unit."
- 1 To make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder. transitive
"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 […]"
- 2 make dizzy or giddy wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”), likely from the root of Proto-Germanic *dwēsaz (“foolish, stupid”). Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).
From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”), likely from the root of Proto-Germanic *dwēsaz (“foolish, stupid”). Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).
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