An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
GIDDIER
GIDDY
airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly
(adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; “a dizzy blonde”; “light-headed teenagers”; “silly giggles”
dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous
(adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; “had a dizzy spell”; “a dizzy pinnacle”; “had a headache and felt giddy”; “a giddy precipice”; “feeling woozy from the blow on his head”; “a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
giddier
comparative form of giddy
Source: Wiktionary
GIDDY
Gid"dy, a. [Compar. Giddier; superl. Giddiest.] Etym: [OE. gidi mad, silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw. gidda to shake, tremble.]
1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy. By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed. Tate.
2. Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice. Prior. Upon the giddy footing of the hatches. Shak.
3. Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling. The giddy motion of the whirling mill. Pope.
4. Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless. "Giddy, foolish hours." Rowe. "Giddy chance." Dryden. Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm. Cowper.
Gid"dy, v. i.
Definition: To reel; to whirl. Chapman.
Gid"dy, v. t.
Definition: To make dizzy or unsteady. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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