Citations:wifty

English citations of wifty

Adjective: "eccentric, silly, scatterbrained"

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• 1994, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, The Roots of Power: Animate Form and Gendered Bodies, Open Court (1994), →ISBN, page 331:

  Female minds on the other hand are wifty, vague, jumbled, erratic — hence illogical and irrational.

• 1998, Russ Barkhimer, "Who's Got the Right Time?", Xlibris (1998), →ISBN, page 290:

  I'm also getting as wifty as any corny fictional character I ever read and ridiculed.”

• 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, Edna G. Frankel, The Circle of Grace: Frequency and Physicality, Light Technology Publishing (2012), →ISBN, page 49:

  They may seem wifty and ungrounded, but in reality, they are functioning at a higher level, receiving stimuli from more than just the third dimension.

• 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 […]