a. and sb. Obs. rare. [f. TURN v. to rotate + GIDDY a. Cf. TURN-SICK a.] a. adj. Giddy as from turning round; dizzy; affected with vertigo. b. sb. Giddiness, dizziness. Hence † Turngiddiness Obs. rare. = b.
Perh. a western dial. word, as the first quot. is from the work of Nicholas of Hereford.
1382. Wycliffite Bible, Isa. xix. 14. The Lord mengde in his myddel the spirit of turnegidy [Vulg. vertiginis].
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. cviii. (Tollem. MS.). Yf he eteþ many þerof, it bredeþ heedache and makeþ hem turnegedy [orig. capiti vertiginem inferunt]. Ibid., VII. xl. (Add. MS. 27944 lf. 90 b/2). Þe moup is soure with mystringe of yȝen and tur[n]gidinesse [orig. vertigine] & wiþ oþir wel yuel signes.
