different between tipsy vs dizzy

English

Etymology

From tips +? -y. Compare artsy, folksy, and sudsy.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?p?s?, IPA^(key): /?t?p.si/
• Rhymes: -?psi

Adjective

tipsy (comparative tipsier, superlative tipsiest)

1. (informal, slang) slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages
2. (metonymically) unsteady, askew

Synonyms

• (slightly drunk): buzzed, merry, squiffy; see also Thesaurus:drunk
• (unsteady): off-kilter, precarious, tottering, wobbly; see also Thesaurus:askew or Thesaurus:rickety

Derived terms

• tipsy cake

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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 […].