Fifty vs Wifty - What's the difference?
fifty | wifty |
The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
(countable) A fifty-dollar bill.
(countable) A fifty-pound note.
(label) A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.
Eccentric, silly, scatterbrained.
* 2004 , Steven Rea, "
* 2009 , Emily Listfield, Best Intentions , Atria Books (2009), ISBN 9781416576716,
* 2012 , Cheryl Glenn, The Harbrace Guide to Writing , Wadsworth (2012), ISBN 9780495913993,
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As a numeral fifty
is the cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.As a noun fifty
is (countable) a fifty-dollar bill.As an adjective wifty is
eccentric, silly, scatterbrained.fifty
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Alternative forms
* fiftie (archaic )Numeral
(head)Synonyms
* : 50 * : L * fitty, fiddy (nonstandard)See also
* Last: forty-nine, forty * Next: fifty-one, sixtyNoun
(fifties)- Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?
Statistics
* English cardinal numberswifty
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Adjective
(er)Thanks for no memories", Philadelphia Inquirer , 19 March 2004:
- Kirsten Dunst is utterly charming as the doctor's wifty office assistant, idolizing her boss from afar and sharing tokes and beer with a pair of Lacuna lab techies played by Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood.
page 79:
- Jack, at nineteen, twenty, had an unambiguous understanding of what it meant to win, there was none of that theoretical, wifty new-age stuff for him;
page 57:
- Sometimes when he talks about this, it sounds as ordinary and hard-boiled as a real estate appraisal; other times it can sound fantastical and wifty and achingly naïve, informed by the last inklings of childhood
