dizzy

comparative dizzier · superlative dizziest · alternative dizzie

1. Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.

   I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.

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   Alas! his brain was dizzy.

   1627, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “Nimphidia. The Court of Fayrie.”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for William Lee, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms: woozy

2. Producing giddiness.

   We climbed to a dizzy height.

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   To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.

   1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC

   ...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.

   1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IX, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC

   Synonyms: dizzying

3. Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

   My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.

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   the dizzy multitude

   1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC

4. UKYorkshiredialectalsimple, half-witted.

   Them as diz ’at is dizzy.

   Those who do that are half-witted.

   1952, Albert Lyon Hoy, An Etymologal Glossary of the East Yorkshire Dialect

present singular third person dizzies · participle present dizzying · participle past dizzied · past dizzied

1. transitiveTo make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder.

   If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.

   1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC

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   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 […]

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

   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.

   2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian

plural dizzies

1. slangautomotiveA distributor (device in internal combustion engine).

   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.

   2005, Roger Williams, How to Give Your MGB V8 Power, page 201

1. UKhumorousslangBenjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and twice prime minister of the United Kingdom.

plural Dizzys · plural Dizzies

1. A nickname.