dizzy

adj

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.”

   “...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. Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

   “My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.”

   “the dizzy multitude”

4. (UK, Yorkshire, dialectal)simple, half-witted.

   “Them as diz ’at is dizzy.”

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

noun

1. (slang)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.”

name

1. (UK, humorous, slang)Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and twice prime minister of the United Kingdom.
2. A nickname.