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giddisome

adj

Etymology

From giddy + -some.

  1. inherited from *gudīg✻ — “ghostly, spirited”
  2. inherited from gidiġ
  3. inherited from gidi
  4. formed as giddisome — “giddy + -some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by giddiness

    • When I was a young and giddisome lass, And vain of my youthful beauty, The squire came a-courting; slightly, alas! I failed in a daughter's duty.
    • If he wishes to be a worker, he Can serve in a column of mercury, If he'd rather be gay and giddysome, There's radium, uranium, iridium.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA