Word Meanings - COCK-BRAINED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Giddy; rash. Milton.

Related words: (words related to COCK-BRAINED)

• GIDDY
  silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw. gidda to shake, 1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded;
• GIDDY-HEAD
  A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. Burton.
• GIDDY-HEADED
  Thoughtless; unsteady.
• GIDDY-PACED
  Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle. Shak.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.