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Dizzily

Definition: Dizzily

Dizzily

Adverb

1. In a giddy light-headed manner; "he walked around dizzily".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dizzily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)


Synonyms: Dizzily

Synonyms: giddily (adv), light-headedly (adv). (additional references)

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Use in Literature: Dizzily

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Under the clinging man the highway blurred dizzily by.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Dizzily

"Dizzily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dizzily" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%3162,296

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dizzily

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dizzily

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dizzily

Language Translations for "dizzily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

marramendthi (giddily). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

шеметно (giddily), замайващо. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

头昏眼花地. (various references)

   

Czech

  

závratnì (giddily). (various references)

   

French

  

avec un sentiment de vertige. (various references)

   

German

  

schwindlig (dizzy, giddy), schwindelig (dizzy, giddy). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εν ζάλη (dazedly). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kábultan (dazedly, in a daze, woozily). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

어지럽게. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

izzilyday

   

Portuguese

  

vertiginosamente (giddily). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ameţitor (astounding, deafening, dizzy, giddy, intoxicating, potent, sensuous, staggering, stunning, vertiginous). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

головокружительно (giddily). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

koji izaziva vroglavicu. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vertiginosamente. (various references)

   

Thai

  

อย่างเวียนศีรษะ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

baş döndürücü bir şekilde. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

запаморочливо. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

hoa mắt (dizzy), choáng váng (dizzy, giddy), chóng mặt (giddy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Dizzily

Misspellings

"Dizzily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dezalay, Disztl, dizzilly, dizzly, dizzyly, Kizilay. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dizzily

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-i-i-l-y-z-z"

-2 letters: dizzy.

-3 letters: idly, idyl.

-4 letters: lid, yid.

-5 letters: id, li.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-i-l-y-z-z"
 

+3 letters: dizzyingly.

 

+4 letters: drizzlingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dizzily


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 7A 7A 69 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    --..    --..    ..    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01111010 01111010 01101001 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#122 &#122 &#105 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 007A 007A 0069 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38759292757891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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