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giddily en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English giddy Middle English -ly English -ly English giddily From giddy + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a giddy manner.
   • “I just need a distraction,” I’d said, tasking my friends, who had giddily gotten to work by texting every unattached and (relatively) unembarrassing man they knew. 2026 June 12, Emily Ratajkowski, “Mother F*cker”, in The Cut:
   • When the wind is in the right direction, hang-gliders launch themselves giddily into space from the precipitous bank. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 102:
   • `Little 'un snoozin'!' Jinny remarked, lurching giddily towards her to merrily twirl her fist in the snoozer. 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 78:

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