dizzy

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make dizzy or giddy

   a dizzying pace

2. 2
   adj

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

   I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.

3. 3
   adj

   Producing giddiness.

   We climbed to a dizzy height.

4. 4
   adj

   Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

   My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.

5. 5
   adj

   simple, half-witted.

   Them as diz ’at is dizzy.

6. 6
   verb

   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 […]

7. 7
   noun

   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.

8. 8
   adj

   lacking seriousness

Etymology

From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”), likely from the root of Proto-Germanic *dwēsaz (“foolish, stupid”). Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).