“When he dreams, he dreams about moving to Wyoming, which he has visited with his family. ... 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 [ˈwɪfti] and achingly naive ...” — Susan Orlean, Joyride: A Memoir, 2025

wifty
adj [ˈwɪfti]

Wifty, a synonym of ditzy [ˈdɪtsi], describes something or someone eccentrically silly or scatterbrained.

...could come from whiff, which as a noun can refer to a quick puff or slight gust of air—a person described by the word wifty might also, if unkindly, be called an airhead. Or perhaps the wift is related to waft, “to move or go lightly on a buoyant medium,” if it’s fair to say that the wifty among us have their heads in the clouds.

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