swimmy
English
Etymology
swim + -y
Adjective
swimmy (comparative more swimmy, superlative most swimmy)
- Dizzy; swirling or moving as if seen in a daze.
- 1901, Henry Lawson, Joe Wilson and His Mates:
- I hadn't noticed at Peter Anderson's—my head was too swimmy to notice anything.
- 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt:
- "I guess it was the heat, but I felt swimmy for a moment. That's all."
- 1995, Iain Banks, Whit
- It was as well I was sitting down; the experience of dizziness induced by a familial revelation did not seem to be a condition I was becoming inured to, despite the frequency with which it had swept through me in the past few days. My sight seemed to go a bit swimmy for a while, but I just sat and waited for it to clear.
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Noun
swimmy (plural swimmies)
- An inflatable armband to help children swim.