wifty
adj/ˈwɪf.ti/
Etymology From *wift + -y. First element is of unknown origin.
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Eccentric, silly, scatterbrained.
- […] 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.2004 March 19, Steven Rea, “Thanks for no memories”, in Philadelphia Inquirer:
- 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; […]2009, Emily Listfield, Best Intentions, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 79:
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- 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 […]2012, Cheryl Glenn, The Harbrace Guide to Writing, Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 57:
- Related terms
- wifty-wafty