Giddyology meaning

adjective

1. The definition of giddy is a feeling of dizziness or of excitement.
   1. An example of giddy is an overexcited child on Christmas morning.
   2. An example of giddy is when you are given the title of President of your company and you are excited but a little bit nervous at the same time.

adjective

giddier, giddiest

1. feeling dizzy or unsteady
2. causing or likely to cause dizziness: a giddy height
3. turning or circling around very rapidly; whirling
4. 1. inconstant; fickle
   2. frivolous; flighty; heedless

giddy

 

adjective

gid·di·er, gid·di·est

1. a. Having a reeling, lightheaded sensation; dizzy.
   b. Causing or capable of causing dizziness: a giddy climb to the topmast.
2. Frivolous and lighthearted; flighty: was giddy with excitement at the news.

intr. & tr.v.

gid·died, gid·dy·ing, gid·dies

To become or make giddy.

Origin of giddy

Middle English gidi, crazy, from Old English gidig; see gheu(&schwa;)- in Indo-European roots. 

Related Forms:

• gid′di·ly

  adverb

• gid′di·ness

  noun

Word History: Though little trace of a divine provenance can be discerned in its modern meaning, giddy is derived from the same ancient Germanic word (*gudam) that has given us the word God. The Germanic word *gudigaz,formed from the word *gudam, meant “possessed by a god.” Such possession can be a rather unbalancing experience, and so it is not surprising that the Old English descendant of *gudigaz, gidig, meant “mad, possessed by an evil spirit,” or that the Middle English development of gidig, gidi, meant the same thing, as well as “foolish,” “mad (used of an animal),” “dizzy,” and “uncertain, unstable.” Our sense “lighthearted, frivolous” represents the ultimate secularization of giddy.

Origin of giddy

Middle English gidie ; from Old English gydig, insane, probably ; from base (*gud) of god, god + -ig (see -y): hence, basic meaning “possessed by a god”