wifty-wafty
English
Adjective
wifty-wafty (comparative wifty-waftier, superlative wifty-waftiest)
- Silly, dippy, kooky.
- 2004, Robert Kastenbaum, On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death, University of California Press (2004), →ISBN, page 406:
- When she introduced the subject of ghosts, then, there was nothing wifty-wafty about it, nothing of mix-and-match designer religiosity or shopworn tales featuring clanking chains on dark and stormy nights.
- 2010, CeCelia R. Zorn, Becoming a Nurse Educator: Dialogue for an Engaging Career, Jones and Bartlett Publishers (2010), →ISBN, page ix:
- Ours was a nursing program based on a paradigm of holistic patient care. I clearly recall chafing at what I perceived as the wifty-wafty aspects of this concept, just as I chafed at the humanity electives I was required to take.
- 2011, Mary McEvoy, How the Light Gets In, Hachette Books Ireland (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- She gave me the telephone number of a very eminent man in Blackrock Clinic, where there was no danger of me casting anyone as a wifty-wafty new ager.
- 2004, Robert Kastenbaum, On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death, University of California Press (2004), →ISBN, page 406:
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