whifty
Collocations
3ADJ.
fragile
VERB + WHIFTY
joke
WHIFTY + NOUN
--, vision
Definitions
adj
Offbeat; slightly kooky or whimsical.
The result isn't so much a joke as a whifty vision.
It's a fragile, whifty to-do -- never serious, never very funny --- which likens love to witchcraft.
Lacking in mental focus, clarity, and sense; illogical.
I want to say that I think the doctors don't tell women about the side effects because they think that we are so whifty we would develop these side effects out of our own minds, something like that.
He said he was kind of whifty. Kind of whifty? Whifty. Like . . . out there.
Lightheaded.
Dak Seang's senior officer, a captain, had not been above ground for thirty days. "A bit whifty," Henry recalled. The man was terrified.
She frantically summoned the flight attendant and gasped, “Whifty, I'm feeling whifty.”
Not steady; gusty or insubstantial.
The people working at the spa were all glowy and whifty, and in fact they did smell very good.
Next morning the snow was falling fast from a dark leaden sky, and the wind was so whifty and the prospects so doubtful that Da feared it might become a blizzard and suggested that it might be advisable not to venture forth after fire wood that day.
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3The result isn't so much a joke as a whifty vision.
WiktionaryIt's a fragile, whifty to-do -- never serious, never very funny --- which likens love to witchcraft.
WiktionaryOn a happier but just as whifty note, I recall pointing out to the synergism aficianados at the top of a company that one of its divisions bore no relation to the parent company or its other divisions
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