Wifty - a podcast by Word of the Day

Wifty is an adjective that means light-headed or scatterbrained. 

It’s appropriate that our word of the day is a synonym of unclear. But its linguistic origin is unclear. But we do know that it was first used by an early twentieth century poet and novelist named Gilbert Frankau.

Tommy seemed wifty after taking a blow to the head. This worried us until we realized that Tommy always seemed a little scatter-brained whether he’d taken a blow to the head or not.

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