To check your pulse at your wrist, place two fingers between the bone and the tendon over your radial artery â which is located on the thumb side of your wrist. When you feel your pulse, count the number of beats in 15 seconds. Multiply this number by 4 to calculate your beats a minute.
Use giddy in a sentence. LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. adjective. The definition of giddy is a feeling of dizziness or of excitement. 1  An example of giddy is an overexcited child on Christmas morning.
An old-fashioned, fussy person can be called a fuddy-duddy. You might accuse your best friend of being a fuddy-duddy if she prefers staying home drinking tea and reading on Saturday nights, instead of going dancing with you. A fuddy-duddy has no sense of humor and is disapproving and a bit pompous. Fuddy-duddies seem dull and conservative, overly careful, and critical of other people's decisions. While we know fuddy-duddy first appeared in print in the late 1800s, and that it originated in the United States, its origin is a mystery.