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GIDDILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does giddily mean?
• GIDDILY (adverb)
The adverb GIDDILY has 1 sense:
1. in a giddy light-headed manner
Familiarity information: GIDDILY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a giddy light-headed manner
Synonyms:
dizzily; giddily; light-headedly
Context example:
he walked around dizzily
Pertainym:
giddy (having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling)
Context examples
In those that remained, there was scarcely any glass; and, through the crumbling frames by which the bad air seemed always to come in, and never to go out, I saw, through other glassless windows, into other houses in a similar condition, and looked giddily down into a wretched yard, which was the common dust-heap of the mansion.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I had to cling tight to the backstay, and the world turned giddily before my eyes, for though I was a good enough sailor when there was way on, this standing still and being rolled about like a bottle was a thing I never learned to stand without a qualm or so, above all in the morning, on an empty stomach.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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