Usually means: Excited to the point of dizziness.
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  1. giddy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. giddy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. giddy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. giddy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. giddy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Giddy, giddy: Wordnik
  7. giddy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. giddy: Wiktionary
  9. giddy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. giddy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. giddy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. giddy: Dictionary.com
  13. giddy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. giddy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Giddy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. giddy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. giddy: Rhymezone
  18. Giddy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. giddy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. giddy: Free Dictionary
  21. giddy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. giddy: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
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  1. giddy, giddy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See giddied as well.)

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adjective:  (predicative only) Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.
adjective:  (attributive) Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.
adjective:  Moving around something or spinning rapidly.
adjective:  (by extension)
adjective:  Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous.
adjective:  (dated) Used as an intensifier.
adjective:  Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.
adjective:  (British, dialectal) Feeling great anger; furious, raging.
adjective:  (British, dialectal, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”), which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly.
adjective:  (obsolete, figuratively) Of a thing, especially a ship: unsteady, as if dizzy.
noun:  Someone or something that is frivolous or impulsive.
noun:  (British, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Synonym of gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”)
verb:  (transitive) To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To become dizzy or unsteady.
verb:  (obsolete) To move around something or spin rapidly; to reel; to whirl.
noun:  A surname.

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