giddy🔊

Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy. +

Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.

Moving around something or spinning rapidly.

(by extension) Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous.

(by extension, dated) (Used as an intensifier.)

(by extension) Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.

(by extension, British, dialectal) Feeling great anger; furious, raging.

(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.

(obsolete, figuratively) Of a thing, especially a ship: unsteady, as if dizzy.

Someone or something that is frivolous or impulsive.

(British, agriculture, veterinary medicine) A disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae. +

To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy.

To become dizzy or unsteady.

(obsolete) To move around something or spin rapidly; to reel; to whirl. +