Usually means: Causing dizziness or lightheaded excitement.
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We found 8 dictionaries that define the word giddying:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. giddying: Merriam-Webster
  2. giddying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. giddying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. giddying: Wordnik
  5. giddying: Wiktionary
  6. giddying: Dictionary.com
  7. giddying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. giddying: Legal dictionary

(Note: See giddy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Giddy)

adjective:  (predicative only) Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.
adjective:  (attributive) Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.
adjective:  Moving around something or spinning rapidly.
adjective:  (by extension)
adjective:  Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous.
adjective:  (dated) Used as an intensifier.
adjective:  Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.
adjective:  (British, dialectal) Feeling great anger; furious, raging.
adjective:  (British, dialectal, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”), which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly.
adjective:  (obsolete, figuratively) Of a thing, especially a ship: unsteady, as if dizzy.
noun:  Someone or something that is frivolous or impulsive.
noun:  (British, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Synonym of gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”)
verb:  (transitive) To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To become dizzy or unsteady.
verb:  (obsolete) To move around something or spin rapidly; to reel; to whirl.
noun:  A surname.
▸ Also see giddy


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