wifty-wafty

English

Adjective

wifty-wafty (comparative wifty-waftier, superlative wifty-waftiest)

1. Silly, dippy, kooky.
   • 2004, Robert Kastenbaum, On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death, University of California Press, →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^[1], Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →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^[2], Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN:

     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.