GIDDILY Definition & Meaning

giddily

[ gid-l-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

with unrestrained high spirits; gleefully:
She blushed and giggled giddily like a child, squealing, “He smiled at me!”
in a way that causes or is affected by vertigo; dizzily:
The shrine is giddily perched atop a cliff amid medieval fortifications.
in a frivolous or silly way:
School boards in those days were spending giddily to keep up with every fad.

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Origin of giddily¹

First recorded in 1200–50; giddy ( def ) + -ly

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Instead, he bounded around the stage, giddily filming the audience on his phone, as they hollered out the chorus to Without You.

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In his acceptance speech, he joked about drinking until morning, and later, backstage, giddily made his trophies kiss like action figures.

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Abrasive, shallow and giddily watchable, her Wow Platinum — what a name! — twiddles her clawed fingers like a femme fatale dead certain she can charm her way to the top.

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The two posed together, giddily making metal signs with their fingers.

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Clodio wears a dress — because he insists, “Revenge is best in a dress” — and giddily kicks his feet in manic joy as he sabotages things.

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