wifty

wifty

English

Etymology

From *wift +‎ -y. First element is of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪf.ti/

Adjective

wifty (comparative wiftier, superlative wiftiest)

1. Eccentric, silly, scatterbrained.
   • 2004, Steven Rea, "Thanks for no memories", Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 March 2004:

     […] Kirsten Dunst is utterly charming as the doctor's wifty office assistant, idolizing her boss from afar and sharing tokes and beer with a pair of Lacuna lab techies played by Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood.

   • 2009, Emily Listfield, Best Intentions, Atria Books (2009), →ISBN, page 79:

     Jack, at nineteen, twenty, had an unambiguous understanding of what it meant to win, there was none of that theoretical, wifty new-age stuff for him; […]

   • 2012, Cheryl Glenn, The Harbrace Guide to Writing, Wadsworth (2012), →ISBN, page 57:

     Sometimes when he talks about this, it sounds as ordinary and hard-boiled as a real estate appraisal; other times it can sound fantastical and wifty and achingly naïve, informed by the last inklings of childhood […]

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:wifty.

Synonyms

• ditsy/ditzy

See also

• wifty-wafty