whifty

Adjective

whifty (comparative whiftier or more whifty, superlative whiftiest or most whifty)

1. Offbeat; slightly kooky or whimsical.
   • The result isn't so much a joke as a whifty vision.1985, Arts Magazine - Volume 59, page 36
   • It's a fragile, whifty to-do -- never serious, never very funny --- which likens love to witchcraft.1986, Joe Baltake, Jack Lemmon: his films and career, page 93
2. 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.1979, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and, Women's Dependency on Prescription Drugs
   • He said he was kind of whifty. Kind of whifty? Whifty. Like . . . out there.1995, Joe Queenan, The unkindest cut
3. 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.1979, Toby Thompson, The '60s Report, page 147
   • She frantically summoned the flight attendant and gasped, “Whifty, I'm feeling whifty.”2001, Barbara Rollin, Ask!, →ISBN
4. Not steady; gusty or insubstantial.
   • The people working at the spa were all glowy and whifty, and in fact they did smell very good.1997, Condé Nast's Traveler - Volume 32, page 235
   • 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.2008, John Ingram Bryan, James Clinton Morrison, A Jolly Wake and Other Stories: Growing Up on Prince Edward Island, page 61