swimmy

comparative more swimmy · comparative swimmier · superlative most swimmy · superlative swimmiest

1. Dizzy; swirling or moving as if seen in a daze.

   "I guess it was the heat, but I felt swimmy for a moment. That's all."

   1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

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   I hadn't noticed at Peter Anderson's—my head was too swimmy to notice anything.

   1901, Henry Lawson, Joe Wilson and His Mates

   It was as well I was sitting down; the experience of dizziness induced by a familial revelation did not seem to be a condition I was becoming inured to, despite the frequency with which it had swept through me in the past few days. My sight seemed to go a bit swimmy for a while, but I just sat and waited for it to clear.

   1995, Iain Banks, Whit

plural swimmies

1. An inflatable armband to help children swim.