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 

• GIDDILY (adverb)

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)