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
giddy (comparative giddier, superlative giddiest)
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.
(archaic) Frivolous, impulsive, inconsistent, changeable.
• dizzy
giddy (third-person singular simple present giddies, present participle giddying, simple past and past participle giddied)
(obsolete, transitive) To make dizzy or unsteady.
To reel; to whirl.
Source: Wiktionary
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
20 June 2024
(adverb) not to a significant degree or amount; “our budget will only be insignificantly affected by these new cuts”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
