dizzy

adj

Etymology: 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”).

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.”

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.”

name

1. A nickname.

noun

1. A 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.”

verb

Etymology: 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”).

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.”