giddy

Meanings

Adjective

• Dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down.
• Causing dizziness: causing dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.
• Lightheartedly silly, or joyfully elated.
• Frivolous, impulsive, inconsistent, changeable.

Verb

• To make dizzy or unsteady.
• To reel; to whirl.

Related

Similar words

• dizzy

Origin

• From Middle English guidie, guydie, gydi, from Old English gidiġ, gydiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *gudīg, equivalent to god + -y.