Definitions for giddy

giddy gid·dy

Spelling: [gid-ee]
IPA: /ˈgɪd i/

Giddy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in giddy (ddgiy).

Definitions for giddy

adjective

  1. affected with vertigo; dizzy.
  2. attended with or causing dizziness:
  3. frivolous and lighthearted; impulsive; flighty:

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to make or become giddy.

Origin of giddy

before 1000; Middle English gidy, Old English gidig mad (as variant of *gydig), derivative of god God, presumably orig. “possessed by a divine being”

Examples for giddy

His giddy glee turns sickening when you consider the coldhearted inhumanity that necessarily lies beneath.

This boasted power of intellect—this giddy triumph of beauty—what do they do for you?

But I could not speak; I could only gape, choking and giddy.

How sad that the word "giddy" is used to imply wantonness or levity!

As much as I was transfixed by every second of this past season of Louie, Veep just made me giddy.

And so Her envisions a future that would have made Steve Jobs giddy.

For the past week, political junkies throughout my home city of Chicago have been rubbing our hands in giddy anticipation.

He who gives his mind to politics, sails on a stormy sea, with a giddy pilot.

She seemed born, not only to captivate the giddy, but to turn the heads of the sage.

Afterwards, a slew of major NBA reporters did their best to quell the giddy, growing mob.

Word Value for giddy
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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