Meanings
comparative wiftier · superlative wiftiest
- Eccentric, silly, scatterbrained.
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 792 more examples
[…] 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 InquirerSometimes 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
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From *wift + -y. First element is of unknown origin.
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