giddy-headed
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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But you, in turn, used to compel the giddy-headed boy to taste our bitterest decoctions.
From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Eugène Sue
I need not quote mine author; they that laugh and contemn others, condemn the world of folly, deserve to be mocked, are as giddy-headed, and lie as open as any other.
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
His friends, who, with the exception of a small number, Ferré, Regnard, and two or three others, were as young and as giddy-headed as himself, discharged in a boyish way the most delicate functions.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
I honour you for it, and so, perhaps, will your giddy-headed friend too, when he comes to know her.
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
If they dread the giddy-headed, the fanatics, or compromising collaborators, why do they not take the direction of the movement into their own hands?
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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