Whifty
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Whifty is an adjective meaning Offbeat; slightly kooky or whimsical.
Meaning
Offbeat; slightly kooky or whimsical.
More Meanings
- Lacking in mental focus, clarity, and sense; illogical.
- Lightheaded.
- Not steady; gusty or insubstantial.
Example Sentences
The result isn't so much a joke as a whifty vision.
He said he was kind of whifty. Kind of whifty? Whifty. Like . . . out there.
It's a fragile, whifty to-do -- never serious, never very funny --- which likens love to witchcraft.
John C. Van Dyke's aesthetic soarings about the arid lands passed on whifty ruminations on coyotes, rattlesnakes, and greasewood, but they were horrors of misinformation.
Word Forms
- whiftier
- whiftiest
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wifty, whimmy, wifty-wafty, whimsical, whimsome, queer.
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