dizzy
adjetivoverbosustantivocorriente en diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈdɪzi//
Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
adjetivo
- 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
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
Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.
My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
the dizzy multitude
- 4
simple, half-witted.
Them as diz ’at is dizzy.
Etimología
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”).
verbo
- 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.
sustantivo
- 1
jergaA 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.
Formas
- plural
- dizzies
- comparativo
- dizzier
- superlativo
- dizziest
- pasado
- dizzied
- participio
- dizzied
- gerundio
- dizzying
- 3.ª persona del singular
- dizzies
dizzy · Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
Dizzy · Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and…DJ · To act as a DJ (disc jockey); to play, cut and mix/blend…DMV · The region made up of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and…