dizz, v.
(dɪz)
[Back-formation from dizzy, on the analogy of craze, crazy, etc.]
trans. To make dizzy or giddy. Hence dizzed, ˈdizzing ppl. adjs.; also dizz n., the act of ‘dizzing’.
| 1632 Sherwood, To dizze, estourdir. 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. xv. 253 He [a horse] is dizzed with the continuall circuits of the Stables. 1814 T. L. Peacock Wks. (1875) III. 133 In spite of all the diz and whiz, Like parish-clerk he spoke. 1834 Medwin Angler in Wales II. 304 Or wheel in dizzing mazes round and round. |