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dizzy

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  • Regno Unito//ˈdɪzi//

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

aggettivo

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    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.

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    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.

Etimologia

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

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    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.

sostantivo

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    gergoA 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.

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