mirligoes
A vivid Scottish dialectal word for dizziness, lightheadedness, or that swimming sensation you get when you stand up too fast or spin around.
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A vivid Scottish dialectal word for dizziness, lightheadedness, or that swimming sensation you get when you stand up too fast or spin around. Mirligoes captures the slightly disorienting, whirling quality of a dizzy spell in a single evocative word that sounds almost like the experience itself. While it's rarely heard outside of Scottish dialect speakers and historical texts, the word has an undeniable charm and expressiveness that makes it worth knowing.
She stood up too fast after sitting in the sun all afternoon and got an almighty case of the mirligoes.
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(Scottish) ; lightheadedness.
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