giddisome

comparative more giddisome · superlative most giddisome · alternative giddysome

1. Characterised or marked by giddiness

   You need to settle down, not be so noisy and giddysome.

   2010, Marie Louise Fitzpatrick, Timecatcher

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   When I was a young and giddisome lass, And vain of my youthful beauty, The squire came a-courting; slightly, alas! I failed in a daughter's duty.

   1874, Misplaced love, page 87

   Because, ever since and before I was too young and giddisome to know much better, I have been anoticing that there's many a girl marries, and after she have married, and been married long enough to find out what they is in it to their cost, it looked too plain to me that they feel like if it was to do over again, they wouldn't.

   1892, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Mr. Billy Downs and His Likes, page 103

   If he wishes to be a worker, he Can serve in a column of mercury, If he'd rather be gay and giddysome, There's radium, uranium, iridium.

   1947, Norman Corwin, Anatomy of Sound, page 43

   These gifts were in the form of both cash and land, and the properties bequeathed to the regular communities were often centered in areas destined to be encompassed by a city on the verge of giddisome expansion.

   2012, Francesco Ammannati, Religion and religious institutions in the European economy