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mifty

mifty is the obsolete form of miffy.

Meaning of miffy

Adjective

miffy (comparative miffier, superlative miffiest)

  1. (informal) Easily irritated or offended.
  2. (dated, informal) Particular; fussy.
    • "Over-watering" is not the result of putting on too much water at one time, but from watering too often. Daily sprinkling or turning the hose on root areas can be most injurious — especially to some miffy plants like rhododendrons and dogwoods.1967, Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin, volume 55, page 42

Forms of mifty

comparativemiftier
superlativemiftiest

Questions about mifty

What is mifty the obsolete form of?
Mifty is the obsolete form of miffy.

Words near mifty in the dictionary

  1. Mifflintown
  2. miffs
  3. miffy
  4. Mifsud
  5. Mifsuds
  6. mifty
  7. mig
  8. MIG Alley
  9. MIG welding
  10. MIGA
  11. Miga Lake

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mifty (page history and authors); miffy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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