different between befogged vs dizzy

English

Adjective

befogged (comparative more befogged, superlative most befogged)

1. Obscured with fog or smoke; murky.
   • 1614, John Taylor, “Plutoes Proclamation concerning his Infernall pleasure for the Propagation of Tobacco” in The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses, London: Nathaniel Butter, ^[1]

     […] euery one a Furies shape assumes,

     Befog’d and clouded with my hel-hatch’d fumes.

   • 1892, Henry James, “Sir Dominick Ferrand” in The Real Thing and Other Tales, New York: Macmillan, 1893, p. 46,^[2]

     Peter Baron, as he sat in his corner while the train stopped, considered, in the befogged gaslight, the bookstall standard of literature and asked himself whose character had fallen to pieces now.

2. (nautical) Caught in fog.
   • 1635, Luke Foxe, North-west Fox, London: Thomas Fawcet, p. 171,^[3]

     […] this morning he was close aboard the N. Coast, it seemeth high ragged land and full of guts, he was becalmed and befogged, and stood S. wards into the channell […]

   • 1912, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Blessington’s Folly, London: John Long, Chapter 20, p. 306,^[4]

     The fact is, he knew every rock, the set of every current at every season of the year, and in his younger days had often gone to the assistance of befogged vessels and piloted them safely into harbour or clear of the coast.

3. Confused, muddled.
   • 1607, Arthur Dent, The Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen, London: Edward Bishop, p. 254,^[5]

     […] you speake you wot not what, you are altogether befogd and benighted in this question.

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXIX,^[6]

     If I could only get back to the inscription or the grotto I felt the rest would be easy to accomplish, but the more I rambled the more utterly befogged I got.

Translations

Verb

befogged

1. simple past tense and past participle of befog

English

Alternative forms

• dizzie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English disy, dysy, desi, dusy, from Old English dysi?, dyse? (“dizzy; foolish; unwise; stupid”), from Proto-Germanic *dusigaz (“stunned; dazed”). Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?d?zi/
• Rhymes: -?zi

Adjective

dizzy (comparative dizzier, superlative dizziest)

1. Having a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.

   I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.

   • 1627, Michael Drayton, Nimphidia, the Court of Faery

     Alas! his brain was dizzy.

2. Producing giddiness.

   We climbed to a dizzy height.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     ...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.

3. Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

   My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.

Derived terms

• dizzies (noun)
• dizzily
• dizziness
• dizzyingly

Translations

Verb

dizzy (third-person singular simple present dizzies, present participle dizzying, simple past and past participle dizzied)

1. (transitive) To make dizzy, to bewilder.
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.161:

     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 […].