dizzy

Adjektiv

1. 1

   Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.

   I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.

   Alas! his brain was dizzy.

2. 2

   Producing giddiness.

   We climbed to a dizzy height.

   To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.

   ...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.

3. 3

   Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

   My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.

   the dizzy multitude

4. 4

   simple, half-witted.

   Them as diz ’at is dizzy.

Verb

1. 1

   To make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder.

   Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature […]

   If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.

   So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times. The contest did not extend beyond the half-hour mark.

Substantiv

1. 1

   SlangA distributor (device in internal combustion engine).

   A service exchange distributor usually needs to be ordered by a motor factor and cost £150-200! I would suggest you use the SD1 dizzy body/cap etc but change the trigger mechanism to a modern electronic/breakerless unit such as the Newtronic unit.

Formen

Plural

dizzies

Komparativ

dizzier

Superlativ

dizziest

Präteritum

dizzied

Partizip II

dizzied

Partizip I

dizzying

3. Person Singular

dizzies