wifty

adjective

wif·ty ˈwif-tē

informal

: eccentrically silly or scatterbrained : ditzy

She portrays a wealthy but wifty widow who wants her family home for the holidays.—

Ed Weiner

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Wifty is a synonym of ditzy. And, like ditzy, its origins remain unknown. The earliest print evidence of wifty goes back to the early 20th century, though the word was certainly being used in spoken English before that. Ditzy stumbled into American slang decades later—we are able to trace it back to the 1970s. But dizzy, which in its Old English origins meant "foolish" or "stupid," has been used in a sense similar to ditzy or wifty since the 16th century.

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Lloyd’s career has been as wifty and out there as his characters. —

Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021