Wifty vs Nifty - What's the difference?
wifty | nifty |
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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Good, smart; a general term for anything that is good, useful or beneficial.
As adjectives the difference between wifty and nifty
is that wifty is eccentric, silly, scatterbrained while nifty is good, smart; a general term for anything that is good, useful or beneficial.wifty
English
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
