Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy. · Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness. · Moving around something or spinning rapidly. · Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous.
Someone or something that is frivolous or impulsive. · Synonym of gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”).
To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy. · To become dizzy or unsteady. · To move around something or spin rapidly; to reel; to whirl.
The adjective is derived from Middle English gidi, gedy, gydy (“demonically controlled or possessed; crazy, insane; foolish, idiotic, ridiculous, unwise; unsure; (rare) dizzy, shaky; (rare) of an animal: crazed, out of control; a fool”) [and other forms], from Old English gidiġ, gydiġ (“possessed by a demon or spirit, insane, mad”), from Proto-West Germanic *gudīg (“ghostly, spirited”, literally “possessed by a god or spirit”), from *god (“god”) + *-ig, *-g (suffix forming adjectives with the senses of being, doing, or having). Thus the word's elements correspond to god + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’, forming adjectives). The noun and the verb are derived from the adjective.
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