a. [f. SWIM v. + -Y.] Inclined to dizziness or giddiness. Also in Comb.
1836. F. S[ykes], Scraps fr. Jrnl., 123. To look down was quite enough to cause one’s head to be unpleasantly swimmy.
1881. C. Whitehead, Hops, 42. The operators must not be swimmy-headed.
1892. Stevenson, Vailima Lett., xvii. (1895), 153. My head rather swimmy.
Hence Swimminess, dizziness.
1894. Conan Doyle, Parasite, 96. I had a dizziness and swimminess which rapidly passed away.
