(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice.
(superl.) Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.
(superl.) Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless.
(v. i.) To reel; to whirl.
(v. t.) To make dizzy or unsteady.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty workers promptly developed symptoms (e.g., nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, giddiness, lassitude, headache, cough, shortness of breath) that typically lasted a few hours but persisted 1-2 days in 7 cases.
(2) Everyone wants to forget that Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, was caught, and admitted, laundering Chapo Guzmán’s giddy profits , as was Wachovia bank , a subsidiary of Wells Fargo: hundreds of billions of dollars of Sinaloa cartel blood money, handled with effective impunity inasmuch as no one in either instance was prosecuted, let alone jailed – indeed, most were promoted.
(3) In some parts of the country, then, the giddiness sown by a hyped-up recovery and rising house prices – up by an annual average of 7.7% , according to Halifax, with George Osborne's Help To Buy scheme having played its part – is evidently doing its work.
(4) Giddiness, nausea and vomiting were the common adverse effects observed.
(5) In the event it was Campbell who took the gold, producing a display of controlled long range aggression to secure Team GB's 28th gold medal of these rather giddy Games.
(6) More giddy blog posts may lie ahead: All Things Digital claimed in October that Snapchat is in talks about yet another funding round valuing the company at a startling $3.6bn , with a lead investor potentially being "a strategic party from Asia" – later fingered as internet firm Tencent.
(7) The mother country would have a hard time refuting the charge that the English just don't take the international game seriously, however giddy St George turns every couple of years.
(8) Perhaps giddy with the excitement of it all, Djokovic produces a couple of unforced errors to give Nadal a break point.
(9) The giddy rise in house prices, too, should be examined skeptically.
(10) Hypertension (n = 50) and the related symptom of headache (n = 40), dyspnea (n = 24), and giddiness (n = 20) were common at presentation.
(11) The giddiness was characterized by a late onset and was usually present even at 24 hours.
(12) Tuesday Thornberry and her staff have recently been upgraded to a new parliamentary office, and are giddy about it.
(13) Photograph: Dreamworks Yelchin wasn’t as classically handsome as Depp; he was easy on the eye without having traditional film-star looks, and I don’t recall his name cropping up in the sort of messageboards bursting with giddy declarations of devotion to Tom Hiddleston or Tom Hardy or Idris Elba.
(14) I was so giddy with success that I stayed for a few drinks and ended up missing my train home.
(15) The authors' findings permit a conclusion that the risk of ethmozine overdosage leading to undesirable side effects (dryness in the mouth, noise in the ears, a 'net' in eyes; giddiness, nausea, vomiting) is very high when routine ethmozine doses are administered to patients with grave (Stages II-III) impairments of liver function; this is explained by (1) reduced rate of ethmozine biotransformation, this resulting in a heightened concentration of the drug in the blood, and (2) by an increase of the drug free fraction concentration due to its reduced ability to bind with the blood plasma proteins.
(16) She shows us photographs of him as a giddy young boy, as a proud paratrooper, and letters in which he talks about how well he’s doing in training.
(17) At last, as the sun dipped behind snow-capped mountains, we rolled down Leadville’s cool, still Main Street, the lack of oxygen making us feel giddy.
(18) A giddy celebration of the “new politics” this conference may officially be, but it is also an old-style beauty contest in which the party is already sizing up the potential contenders for the succession should Uncle Jez fall under a composite motion.
(19) I mean, you weren’t so giddy when The Container Store started trading last week .
(20) A golden moon hung over the city, and as night deepened the crowd lounging off Hope Street grew giddy.
Kiddy
Definition:
(v. t.) To deceive; to outwit; to hoax.
(n.) A young fellow; formerly, a low thief.
Example Sentences:
(1) This manifests itself as a bit of a grimace when a kiddie pops up in front of his gun, a tut when colleagues show a lack of concern for collateral damage. "
(2) Inside was the world's biggest map, depicting all of New York state, laid out in sparkling terrazzo, across which troupes of acrobats and dancers would perform, and the animals of the kiddies' petting zoo would snuffle.
(3) Criterion validators were Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (K-SADS) generated diagnoses and a 17-item clinician-rated depression scale extracted from the K-SADS.
(4) And yet we know that, if Polanski were a children's TV presenter from the 1970s, networks here would not be cheerfully accepting new editions of Roman's Kiddie Funhouse, shot and edited in the foreign exile where he fled to escape justice.
(5) Thirteen children with new-onset inflammatory bowel disease were given a Kiddie-SADS-E interview.
(6) The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS) for School-Age Children (Kiddie SADS) Present Episode Version, an adaptation of the adult SADS for children was used.
(7) The project was a hit in New York two years ago, where the shorts produced included Rotting Hill and The Big Nap (a kiddie noir); Gondry is hopeful that it will roll out to other cities, with different centres watching one another's films.
(8) Dame Elke Kerr (@Smelkstar) because my grandfather loved mining for coal so much, especially the death from lung cancer bit, I'm so #australiansforcoal April 14, 2014 DavidW2035 (@DavidW2035) Because I hate breathing fresh air, eating food and drinking clean water I'm with #australiansforcoal #auspol April 14, 2014 Liz Conor (@LizConor) Love the smell of coal dust in the morning - asthma, IQ loss, nerve damage - can our kiddies ask for more?
(9) The Kiddie Formal Thought Disorder Story Game and the Kiddie Formal Thought Disorder Scale were administered to schizophrenic, schizotypal, and normal children, aged 5 to 13 years.
(10) The kiddie tag never took off, thank heavens – the batteries alone would have cost a fortune.
(11) Korine is big-sisterly and diplomatic, Benson and Hudgens are goofy, gabby, earnest and lovable by turns, while Gomez, the youngest and the only non-blonde in the movie, is often the one who sensibly and self-deprecatingly re-routes a conversation going adrift, who actually answers the original question, exuding the kind pragmatism, sanity and poise you might expect from a hard-bitten 13-year veteran of the kiddie-showbiz wars.
(12) Labor has been hammering the critique that Tony Abbott was denying the kiddies of Australia decent school funding by leaning on the premiers not to sign up.
(13) August 13, 2013 1.50am BST Meanwhile, back with the kiddies.
(14) The Kiddie-Infant Descriptive Instrument for Emotional States (KIDIES) was used to overcome the limitations of microanalytic facial observations and subjective assessments in the diagnosis of childhood developmental disorders.
(15) The immense success of the toy company's video games (which included kiddie-friendly twists on Star Wars and Indiana Jones) foreshadow this move into animation.
(16) And then you grow up and find yourself with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other, and maybe you're walking the kiddies around.
(17) Comparisons included Kiddie-SADS (Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia) diagnoses and evaluations of behavior problems, school functioning, and social competence.
(18) It’s perhaps more likely that Walker might have resigned to avoid the humiliation that his polling would kick him down to the kiddie-table in the next debate or see him barred from participation entirely.
(19) Children of normal, medically ill, and bipolar and unipolar depressed mothers were assessed initially and 6 months later for diagnostic status using the Kiddie-SADS interview.
(20) Structured interview (Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children) and Child Behavior Checklist data from depressed and nondepressed psychiatric controls were analyzed to explore the interaction of somatic complaints, anxiety, and depression.