ditz
nounUK /dɪts/
Etymology Back-formation from ditzy.
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Derogatory, Informal A scatterbrained person, especially a woman.
- It’s clear Belle Delphine is playing a character: the empty-headed gamer girl ditz who floats around spreading love and magic wherever she goes,” says Vito.2019 July 11, Ej Dickson, quoting Vito Gesualdi, “Is Belle Delphine, a.k.a. Bathwater Gamer Girl, the Greatest Troll On the Internet?”, in Rolling Stone:
- Crystal says, “I had to become almost a cartoon of vapid femininity to explain why I was so outof it. I couldn’t be good at being a person, but I could be good at being a girl. And my girly-ness could explain why I was so dumb at math and so bad at people. She’s such a ditz.”2022, Devon Price, chapter 3, in Michele Eniclerico, editor, Unmasking Autism, New York: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 92: