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the dizzy joy that hijacks your face before your brain signs off on it
means Feeling dizzy, lightheaded, or so excitedly happy that you can barely think straight.
from From Old English 'gydig,' meaning insane or possessed — and here's the lovely part: it's thought to come from the same root as 'god,' so to be giddy was literally to be 'god-possessed,' filled or seized by a divine spirit. Over the centuries that wild, ecstatic possession mellowed from madness into mere dizziness and bubbly delight.
- old meaning
- once meant insane or possessed by a god
- root
- derives from the same source as god
- physical sense
- originally described literal dizziness, not delight
- body knows first
- the grin arrives before the thought does
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