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▪ I. giddy, n.|ˈgɪdɪ|
[f. the adj.]
= gid1.
1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. xxi. 136 If any of you haue a sheepe sicke of the giddies, or an hogge of the mumps, or [etc.]. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (1807) II. 705 The Turn or Giddy is a disorder with which these animals [sheep] are often seized. 1888Berksh. Gloss., Giddy, a disease of the brain in sheep.
▪ II. giddy, a.|ˈgɪdɪ|
Forms: 1 gidiᵹ, 3 gidi(e, gidy, gydi(e, (guydi), 4–5 gedy, 6–7 giddie, gyddy, 6– giddy.
[OE. gidiᵹ insane, is shown by its guttural initial to be a graphic variant of *gydiᵹ:—prehistoric *gudīgo-, app. f. OTeut. *gudom god. The primary sense thus appears to be ‘possessed by a god, ἔνθεος’; cf. OE. ylfiᵹ insane, lit. ‘elf-possessed’, similarly f. ælf elf.]
†1.
a. Mad, insane, foolish, stupid. Obs.
c1000O.E. Gloss. (Napier) I. 5009 Limphaticum, þæne gidiȝan. c1200Winteney Rule St. Benet vii. (1888) 41 Se gidie [L. stultus] on his hleæhtre his stefene onhefð. a1250Owl & Night. 290 Hi hit seggeþ wel ilome Þat me ne chide wiþ þe gidie. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 1542 He [Nero] bicom sone þer after pur gidy & wod. a1300Leg. Rood (1871) 58 Þou gidi [v.r. wode] hound quaþ Seint quiriac.
b. dial. Mad with anger, furious.
1674Ray N.C. Words 21 Giddy, mad with anger. a1787Pegge Derbicisms (E.D.S.), Giddy, mad; as a giddy horse, one that is wild or untam'd. 1828Craven Gloss., Giddy, furious, heated with anger. 1847–78in Halliwell.
2. a. Having a confused sensation of swimming or whirling in the head, with proneness to fall; affected with vertigo, dizzy.[This sense appears to be first exemplified in the compound turngiddy.] 1570Levins Manip. 97/23 Gyddie, vertiginosus. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lx. ii, Dull horror was our drink, We drinking giddy grew. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Jas. V, Wks. (1711) 110 His brains having been a little giddy (like one looking from a great height) by his advancement to honours and place in court. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xviii. (1845) 277 My Head began to grow giddy. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. ii. §26 They seem to me drunk and giddy with a false notion of liberty. 1821Praed Poems (1864) I. 51 The Monk is as straight as a poplar tree, Gog is as giddy as Gog may be! 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 78 For the first time during the journey he grew giddy. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 154, I felt at first giddy and faint, as if I had received a blow from the expert hand of a boxer.
†b. transf. Of a ship: Staggering as if dizzy.
1700Dryden Ceyx & Alcyone 198 The giddy ship ran round. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 79 Now here, now there, the giddy ships are born.
c. Causing or apt to produce dizziness or swimming in the head, rendering dizzy.
1585Abp. Sandys Serm. iii. 49 If thou sowe the giddie darnell of humane traditions, looke for like fruite. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iv. 17 As we pac'd along Vpon the giddy footing of the Hatches. 1597― 2 Hen. IV, iii. i. 18 Vpon the high and giddie Mast. 1676Dryden Aurengz. iv. i, Time these giddy Vapours will remove. 1718Prior Power 124 The giddy precipice, and the dangerous flood. 1781Cowper Hope 187 From infancy through childhood's giddy maze. 1847Emerson Poems, Woodnotes i. 92 Whose giddy top the morning loved to gild. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Europe iii. (1894) 81 The giddy cliffs which surround them.
d. Whirling or circling round with bewildering rapidity.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 952 To..turne the giddy round of Fortunes wheele. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. ix. 454 With swift and giddy motions. 1715–20Pope Iliad xviii. 695 So whirls a wheel, in giddy circle toss'd. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 417 While above the giddy tempest flies. a1793G. White in Selborne (1854) 8 The happy schoolboy brings transported forth His long-forgotten scourge and giddy gig. 1810Scott Lady of L. ii. xxxi, Amid his senses' giddy wheel. 1842Tennyson Sin 29 The strong tempestuous treble..Ran into its giddiest whirl of sound. 1890R. Bridges Shorter Poems iv. 13, I lean across the paddock pale And gaze upon the giddy mill.
e. dial. Of a sheep: Affected with the ‘gid’. giddy mutton (see quot. 1881).
1847–78Halliwell, Giddy,..a term applied to sheep that have hydatides on the brain. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss. s.v., Lambs and sheep are said to be giddy when they take to turning round in an aimless sort of way..When the animal is killed as it generally is on manifesting this gyratory tendency, the meat is known as ‘giddy lamb’, or ‘giddy mutton’.
3. a. Of persons, their attributes and actions: Mentally intoxicated, ‘elated to thoughtlessness’ (J.); incapable of or indisposed to serious thought or steady attention; easily carried away by excitement; ‘light-headed, frivolous, flighty, inconstant. to play the giddy goat: see goat 3 b; to play the giddy ox: to behave foolishly or frivolously; to play the fool.
Chiefly transf. from sense 2; but some of the uses may descend directly from sense 1.
a1547Surrey æneid ii. 33 So diuerse ranne the giddy peoples minde. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 81 Such as do alway sauor of a certaine giddy imagination. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. i. 83 [They] Doe pelt so fast at one anothers Pate, That many haue their giddy braynes knockt out. 1626Bacon Sylva §698 It may be Gnats and Flies haue their Imagination more mutable and giddy. a1631Donne Poems (1650) 118 Giddie fantastique Poets. 1643Milton Divorce Wks. (1847) 158/2 Many they shall reclaim from obscure and giddy sects. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. i. 216 Govern'd by the Moon, the giddy Jews Tread the same Track when she the Prime renews: And once in twenty Years..By natural Instinct they change their Lord. 1713Steele Guardian No. 5 ⁋6 The giddy part of her sex will have it she is in love. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xix, She said twenty giddy things that looked like joy. 1779F. Burney Diary Oct., A mere playful, giddy, romping child. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. Ser. ii. xv. (1869) 301 Art..still allures our giddy admiration. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 26 And giddy girls of gay fifteen Mimic his manner and his mien. 1845Disraeli Sybil (1863) 257 She..thinks she is gay when she is only giddy. 1892Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday 19 Mar. 91/2 Fanny Robinson was flighty; she played the giddy ox—I mean, heifer. 1915W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xiii. 47 Don't play the giddy ox. 1922Joyce Ulysses 9, I don't want to be debagged! Don't you play the giddy ox with me!
absol.1807Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 282 'Twould warn the giddy and awake the gay. 1838Lytton Alice 55 She seemed born, not only to captivate the giddy, but to turn the heads of the sage.
b. Used (often ironically) as an intensive; also used in the expression of surprise my giddy aunt (cf. aunt 5).
1896Kipling Seven Seas 171 'E's a kind of a giddy harumfrodite—soldier an' sailor too! 1899― Stalky 28 King'll have to prove his charges up to the giddy hilt. Ibid. 112, I spoke the giddy truth... I said I didn't know. Ibid. 142 Hullo. What's the giddy jest? 1915J. Buchan 39 Steps iv. 97 A giddy lot Scudder's friends cared for peace and reform. 1919‘W. N. P. Barbellion’ Jrnl. Disappointed Man 268 Oh my giddy aunt! 1924A. J. Small Frozen Gold iii. 92 The giddy part of it is that our strike isn't up north at all.
4. Comb., as giddy-brain, giddy-head (said of a person); giddy-brained, giddy-drunk, giddy-headed, giddy-paced, giddy-pated, giddy-witted adjs.; giddy-gander dial. = gandergoose; giddy-go-round, something that revolves with giddy rapidity, esp. a ‘merry-go-round’ or ‘roundabout’; giddy-goating vbl. n., acting the ‘giddy goat’, fooling about; † giddy-lumpishness, heaviness and dizziness (of the head).
a1652Brome Covent Gard. i. Wks. 1873 II. 17 This kicksy wincy *Giddibrain will spoil all. 1796Plain Sense I. 199 Lady Almeria was a little giddy-brain.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 19 Certain *giddy brained men. 1682Otway Venice Preserved iii. i, Useless, giddy-brain'd Ass! 1784Denouement 108 A foolish penchant for a little giddy brained girl.
1827Coleridge Let. in Mem. H. F. Cary (1847) II. 176 Even as a man *giddy-drunk throws his arms about, and clasps hold of a barber's block for support.
1847–78Halliwell, *Giddygander, the orchis. Dorset. 1863Barnes Dorset Gloss., Giddygander, the early purple orchis (orchis mascula)..and other common species of orchis.
1883J. H. Ewing Jackanapes iii. 20 His friend could not..ride in the *giddy-go-round. 1893R. Kipling Many Invent., My Lord the Elephant 65 He put his arm round av' me an' I came into the sun, the hills an' the rocks skippin' big giddy-go-rounds.
1891S. J. Duncan Amer. Girl Lond. 79 A little *giddy-goating does nobody any harm.
1641‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. Answ. ii. 29 Before he..condemne those for *giddyheads that will not take his word for proofs. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 106 The Heir of Bantam is..of little Credit, being a Giddy⁓head.
1575Turbervile Faulconrie 148 So much the greater ought your bells to be by how much more you see your hawke *gyddy headed. 1639G. Daniel Vervic. 395 Oh the sickly tast Of giddie-headed Popularitie. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xlvi, Dangling after a parcel of giddy⁓headed girls.
1678Yng. Man's Call. 389 He [prince Henry] grew more pale than formerly..yet he did not much complain, but only of *giddy-lumpishness in his forehead.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. ii. iv. 6 These most briske and *giddy⁓paced times.
1604R. Armin Ded. in G. Dugdale's Disc. Pract. Eliz. Caldwell A ij, We haue many *giddie pated Poets, that coulde haue published this Report with more eloquence. 1830Scott Demonol. viii. 240 These enthusiastic and giddy-pated girls.
c1830R. Sullivan in Casquet Lit. V. 173/1 Betty was a reckless, *giddy-witted baggage.
▪ III. giddy, v.|ˈgɪdɪ|
Also 7 gyddy.
[f. the adj.]
1. trans. To make or render giddy.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. li. (1612) 232 Your Darnell giddieth so. 1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. viii. 317 So are you gyddied and hurled vp and downe, with euery blast of vaine doctrine. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. 28 Betele..giddies the braine. 1710Acc. Last Distemp. T. Whigg ii. 44 After he had giddy'd his Guests by a Chase of various Meanders and winding ways. 1799Coleridge Lett. (1895) 284 Oh this strange..scene-shifter, Death!—that giddies one with insecurity. 1889C. Edwardes Sardinia 163 That he may not be giddied by his perpetual rotations.
2. intr. To become giddy.
1845S. Judd Margaret vi. (1871) 28 My head swims, my brain giddies.
†3. ? To turn round with giddy movement.
1615Chapman Odyss. ix. 135 Had not..a sodaine North⁓wind fetcht, With an extreame sea, quite about againe, Our whole endeuours; and our course constraine To giddie round; and with our bowd sailes greete Dreadfull Maleia.
Hence ˈgiddying ppl. a., that makes giddy.
1820M. Starke Direct. Trav. on Cont. ii. (1823) 34 The Chapeau, a giddying eminence opposite to Montanvert. 1844Ld. Houghton Mem. Many Scenes, Illum. St. Peter's ii. 135 At last that giddying sight took form. a1882Longfellow Mich. Angelo i. iv, You think..my head Swims with the giddying whirl of life about me. 1886T. Hardy Mayor Casterbr. xxvii, One that creeps into the maiden heart like the giddying worm into the sheep's brain. |
