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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having a giddy head; frivolous; volatile; incautious.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Thoughtless; unsteady.

Examples

  • “I also get slightly giddy-headed and green with envy at the vast amount of literature you cover...”

    Burantashi etc

  • “I need not quote mine author; they that laugh and contemn others, condemn the world of folly, deserve to be mocked, are as giddy-headed, and lie as open as any other.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “[229] O saeclum insipiens et infacetum, a giddy-headed age.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “That men are so misaffected, melancholy, mad, giddy-headed, hear the testimony of Solomon, Eccl. ii.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Nulla scabies, as [6574] he said, superstitione scabiosior; as he that is bitten with a mad dog bites others, and all in the end become mad; either out of affection of novelty, simplicity, blind zeal, hope and fear, the giddy-headed multitude will embrace it, and without further examination approve it.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “And again, there was Bert Gettler, the youth who had escorted her to the dance the night Clyde first met her, but who was little more than a giddy-headed dancing soul, one not to be relied upon in a crisis like this.”

    An American Tragedy

  • “Macky described him as “very giddy-headed, with some wit,” to which Swift added, “He is not worth mentioning.””

    The Journal to Stella

  • ““She is an insolent, giddy-headed thing, or perhaps worse!””

    Madame Bovary

  • “Salmigondinois; not an inconstant and uncertain rent-seek, like that of witless, giddy-headed bachelors, but sure and fixed, of the nature of the well-paid incomes of regenting doctors.”

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

  • “So he committed him close prisoner till payment, and gave the jailor charge to let no giddy-headed people come at him; for his friends and those that would have done him good were called "giddy-headed people," and so kept out; and such as would abuse him by scorning or beating, those they let in and set them on.”

    A Book of Quaker Saints

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