Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded. · Producing giddiness. · Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy. · simple, half-witted.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder.
From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”). Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).
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