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形容詞

giddying (comparative more giddying, superlative most giddying)

1. Causing giddiness.
   • 1805, John Wilson Croker, The History of Cutchacutchoo‎, page 31:

     Whilst the youngster’s ambition by soaring too high, / And daring to Phœbus to venture too nigh, / From the giddying height came tumbling full fast, / Till the waves of the sea entomb’d him at last.

   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 4, in The Mayor of Casterbridge‎, volume 2, page 53:

     the sort […] that creeps into the maiden heart like the giddying worm into the sheep’s brain—making crooked seem straight to their eyes

   • 1921, Walter de la Mare, chapter 5, in Memoirs of a Midget‎, pages 53-54:

     Nor from that day to this, through all my giddying “ups” and sobering “downs” have I ever for a moment regretted my decision—

   • 2005, Tash Aw, chapter 3, in The Harmony Silk Factory:

     I reached for the thick hanging vines and swung in a broad arc, rising high until I faced the giddying sky;

派生語

• giddyingly