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dizzy

Pronunciation: /ˈdɪzi/

The English word “dizzy” has 6 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
  2. Producing giddiness.
  3. Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.
  4. simple, half-witted.

verb

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

noun

  1. A distributor (device in internal combustion engine).

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”).

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