swimmy


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swimmy

(ˈswɪmɪ)
adj, swimmier or swimmiest
1. dizzy
2. tearful
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References in classic literature ?
I guess it was the heat, but I felt swimmy for a moment.
I must say, though, that I was swimmy in my head and now and then had a noise as of the sea in my ears, so I might not have heard it.
As though she had run through long years in her flight across the small parlour, Mrs Verloc by the door was quite a different person from the woman who had been leaning over the sofa, a little swimmy in her head, but otherwise free to enjoy the profound calm of idleness and irresponsibility.
Naturally it makes one a little swimmy in the head at first.
What makes little Swimmy so pernicious in the wild?
Ecclesiastical buildings can provide musical hazards with swimmy sound and back desk players tucked away in nooks and crannies - but not Pugin's Gothic revival masterpiece.
'It just makes me a little bit swimmy because that was not what I would eat at home but I am here so it's time to try them,' Australian tourist Elisabeth Dark said after taking a bite of a spider leg.
Our tester says: "I had to turn the power up until I felt a "swimmy" sensation in my head, then turn it down a notch for the 20-minute treatment.
And how much later after that did it become known that we ourselves are indeed made of large quantities of microscopic swimmy bits, many of which are not in actuality "human"?
If your swimmy head is teamed with other nervy symptoms, like restlessness, palpitations and a feeling of dread, the chances are it's anxiety that's the problem.
ANXIETY If your swimmy head is teamed with other nervy symptoms, like restlessness, palpitations and a feeling of dread, the chances are it's anxiety that's the problem.