": a disease especially of sheep caused by the larva of a tapeworm ( Multiceps multiceps ) in the brain":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1601, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"back-formation from giddy":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gid"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202014",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to make giddy : confuse":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"giddy entry 1 + -fy":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gid\u0259\u02ccf\u012b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094426",
"type":[
"transitive verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"earnest",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"sober",
"unfrivolous"
],
"definitions":{
": causing dizziness":[
"a giddy height"
],
": dizzy":[
"giddy from the unaccustomed exercise"
],
": joyfully elated : euphoric":[
"was giddy with delight"
],
": lightheartedly silly : frivolous":[],
": to become giddy":[],
": to make giddy":[],
": whirling rapidly":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"The news made him positively giddy .",
"He was giddy with delight.",
"The room was filled with giddy laughter.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Buffalo resident Jamie Lash was giddy as Buffalo Bills player Josh Thomas draped his arm around her shoulder and smiled for a picture Wednesday. \u2014 Carolyn Thompson, San Francisco Chronicle , 18 May 2022",
"Travis\u2019s oceanside proposal to Kourtney goes perfectly, and the family festivities that follow are giddy . \u2014 Vogue , 5 May 2022",
"It was featured two days later on Tucker Carlson\u2019s Fox News show, and Carlson was giddy while describing it. \u2014 Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic , 28 Apr. 2022",
"After learning that Walsh was about to be exposed, the president sent a giddy response to Ernst. \u2014 James Kirchick, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Using interviews with Ivanka Trump, her husband, Jared Kushner, and several of the president\u2019s campaign aides, the committee video captured how the sense of celebration inside the White House residence turned from giddy optimism to grim anxiety. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"The giddy effervescence of fireworks shouldn\u2019t be limited to the Fourth of July. \u2014 Patricia Harris And David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"There were no men in tall hats, getting vitiated, just a giddy crowd, ready for some good news at last, standing under umbrellas in the rain. \u2014 Sam Knight, The New Yorker , 27 May 2022",
"Kosinski embedded custom cameras in real F-18s to capture the actors in actual death-defying flight patterns and the cockpit performances have a giddy authenticity that practically nothing else does. \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 27 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Grab the Fishy bagel with the whitefish spread and giddy up. \u2014 Leslie Kelly, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
"That's when Watters giddied -up onstage to show off his moves which have since gone viral. \u2014 Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle , 25 Feb. 2020",
"The guests giddied into the night no doubt writing fantasy Christmas lists: a playful pair of ear clips made of amethyst, Ceylon sapphire, and diamonds by JAR or a mighty Cartier emerald-and-diamond necklace",
"Though the Illinois man was lucky enough to giddy up and grab a quick taco, other hungry equestrians have made headlines for being turned away. \u2014 Janine Puhak, Fox News , 22 May 2018",
"Many Democrats giddy from their recent health policy successes are starting to reach enthusiastically for a mountaintop goal: establishing a single-payer system for all Americans. \u2014 Margot Sanger-katz, New York Times , 11 Sep. 2017",
"These giddying sums are shaking the landscape of pro soccer. \u2014 Chris Buckley, New York Times , 4 Jan. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1602, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English gidy mad, foolish, from Old English gydig possessed, mad; akin to Old English god god":"Adjective and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gi-d\u0113",
"\u02c8gid-\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"birdbrained",
"ditzy",
"ditsy",
"dizzy",
"featherbrained",
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"frothy",
"futile",
"goofy",
"harebrained",
"light-headed",
"light-minded",
"puerile",
"scatterbrained",
"silly",
"yeasty"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202700",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"giddy gander":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": male orchis":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005232",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"giddyap":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1897, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"alteration of get up":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccgi-d\u0113-\u02c8ap",
"-\u02c8\u0259p"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074746",
"type":[
"imperative verb"
]
},
"gidgee":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a somewhat scrubby Australian acacia ( Acacia cambagei ) that grows chiefly in dry inland regions and has an extremely foul-smelling blossom":[],
": georgina gidgee":[],
": the dense hard dark wood of gidgee and various other small Australian acacias that is valued for turning and carving and used also for fencing and fuel":[],
