dizzy

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈdɪzi/    /ˈdɪzi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A distributor (device in internal combustion engine). slang
    — A service exchange distributor usually needs to be ordered by a motor factor and cost £150-200! I would suggest you use the SD1 dizzy body/cap etc but change the trigger mechanism to a modern electronic/breakerless unit such as the Newtronic unit.
动词 v.
  1. To make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder. transitive
    — Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
    — I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.
  2. Producing giddiness.
    — We climbed to a dizzy height.
  3. Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.
    — My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
  4. simple, half-witted. UK,Yorkshire,dialectal
    — Them as diz ’at is dizzy.
    Those who do that are half-witted.

词形变化

dizzier comparative dizziest superlative dizzie alternative dizzies present,singular,third-person dizzying participle,present dizzied participle,past dizzied past dizzies plural

词源

From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”).
Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).
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