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Dizzy vs Totty - What's the difference?

dizzy | totty |

As adjectives the difference between dizzy and totty

is that dizzy is having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded while totty is (uk|obsolete|dialect) unsteady; dizzy; tottery.

As a verb dizzy

is to make dizzy, to bewilder.

As a noun totty is

(british|slang|english) sexually attractive women considered collectively; usually connoting a connection with the.

dizzy

English

Alternative forms

* dizzie (obsolete)

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.
    • I stood up too fast and felt dizzy .
  • * Drayton
    • Alas! his brain was dizzy .
  • Producing giddiness.
    • We climbed to a dizzy height.
  • * Macaulay
    • To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), 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.
  • empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous
    • My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
  • * Milton
    • the dizzy multitude

    Derived terms

    * dizzily * dizziness * dizzyingly

    Verb

  • 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.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Dominic Fifield, work=The Guardian
    • , title= England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova , passage=So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times. The contest did not extend beyond the half-hour mark.}}

    totty

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (-)
  • (British, slang, English) sexually attractive women considered collectively; usually connoting a connection with the .
  • (slang, English) an individual sexually attractive woman
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    • Usage notes
    Although denoting a countable subject, the noun is most often a . A single person is described as "some totty" or "a bit of totty". But a group of people can also be referred to as "some totty" or "the totty".
    Related terms
    * hotty
    Synonyms
    * talent

    Etymology 2

    Compare totter.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, obsolete, dialect) unsteady; dizzy; tottery
  • * Spenser
    • For yet his noule [head] was totty of the must.
    (Sir Walter Scott)
    (Webster 1913)