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giddy

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 3:30 pm
by William Hupy
This is from German for God possessed?

Re: giddy

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 3:53 pm
by Slava
Looks that way. Though not necessarily by capital-G God. Any divine spirit will do.

Not uncommon, I believe. Other cultures have words for those who are sufficiently different so as to appear crazed by a holy being.

Re: giddy

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:11 pm
by Perry Lassiter
Doesn't enthusiasm have the same concept? It means being filled with a god.

Re: giddy

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:58 am
by Philip Hudson
And fan is short for fanatic.

Re: giddy

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:09 am
by Slava
Enthusiastic fans are often giddily crazy over things, too.

Re: giddy

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 8:00 pm
by gailr
Looks that way. Though not necessarily by capital-G God. Any divine spirit will do.

Not uncommon, I believe. Other cultures have words for those who are sufficiently different so as to appear crazed by a holy being.
Hence the English euphemism for madness: touched.

Re: giddy

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:38 pm
by Perry Lassiter
Or, as Philip might remind us, tetched, a wee mite tetched. Just a little nuts.