Dizzy (Goo Goo Dolls song)
WordNet
adjective
(1) Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
"A dizzy blonde"
"Light-headed teenagers"
"Silly giggles"
(2) 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"
verb
(3) Make dizzy or giddy
"A dizzying pace"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
, probably related to West Frisian dize, (fog).
Adjective
- having a sensation of turning around; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.
- I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.
- producing giddiness
- We climbed to a dizzy height.
- empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous
- My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
Verb
- To make dizzy, to bewilder.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 161:
- Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature [...].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 161: