Wiktionary:Word of the day/2022/September 27

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Word of the day
for September 27
giddy adj
  1. Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.
  2. Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.
  3. Moving around something or spinning rapidly.
  4. (by extension)
    1. Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous.
      1. (dated) Used as an intensifier.
    2. Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.
    3. (British, dialectal) Feeling great anger; furious, raging.
  5. (British, dialectal, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”), which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly.
  6. (obsolete, figuratively) Of a thing, especially a ship: unsteady, as if dizzy.

giddy n (archaic)

  1. Someone or something that is frivolous or impulsive.
  2. (British, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Synonym of gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”).

giddy v

  1. (transitive) To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy.
  2. (intransitive)
    1. To become dizzy or unsteady.
    2. (obsolete) To move around something or spin rapidly; to reel; to whirl.
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