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dizzy.

Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈdɪzi/UK, US
  1. Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.

    I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.
  2. Producing giddiness.

    We climbed to a dizzy height.
  3. Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

    My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
  4. simple, half-witted.

    UK · Yorkshire · dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”). Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).

verb/ˈdɪzi/UK, US
  1. To make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”). Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).

noun/ˈdɪzi/UK, US
  1. A distributor (device in internal combustion engine).

    slang
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