"giddy as a windmill" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1837, Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling Reminiscences, page 130",
          "text": "I will e'en ascend thee, thou biped perilous!—but not fast, not fast; for I am giddy as a windmill, and the wits are flying out of me in legions.",
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          "ref": "1856, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, The Travels, Voyages, and Adventures of Gilbert Go-ahead: In Foreign Parts, page 169",
          "text": "We then entered, and winding through staircases, and entries, and corridors, till I was as giddy as a windmill, we came at last to a cell, into which we were admitted by a priest.",
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          "ref": "1907, Ernest George Henham, Arminel of the West, page 252",
          "text": "I'm as giddy as a windmill. I've been sitting in the sun all day. Come tomorrow. Bring the girl. She's a dear girl. A Burgoyne I'll swear. I must get to bed. Help me into my room. The sun was so very powerful this afternoon.",
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        "Very dizzy."
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        "(simile) Very dizzy."
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