giddisome

English

Alternative forms

• giddysome

Etymology

From giddy +‎ -some.

Adjective

giddisome (comparative more giddisome, superlative most giddisome)

1. Characterised or marked by giddiness
   • 1874, Misplaced love, page 87:

     When I was a young and giddisome lass,
     And vain of my youthful beauty,
     The squire came a-courting; slightly, alas!
     I failed in a daughter's duty.

   • 1892, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Mr. Billy Downs and His Likes, page 103:

     Because, ever since and before I was too young and giddisome to know much better, I have been anoticing that there's many a girl marries, and after she have married, and been married long enough to find out what they is in it to their cost, it looked too plain to me that they feel like if it was to do over again, they wouldn't.

   • 1947, Norman Corwin, Anatomy of Sound, page 43:

     If he wishes to be a worker, he
     Can serve in a column of mercury,
     If he'd rather be gay and giddysome,
     There's radium, uranium, iridium.

   • 2010, Marie Louise Fitzpatrick, Timecatcher:

     You need to settle down, not be so noisy and giddysome.

   • 2012, Francesco Ammannati, Religion and religious institutions in the European economy:

     These gifts were in the form of both cash and land, and the properties bequeathed to the regular communities were often centered in areas destined to be encompassed by a city on the verge of giddisome expansion.