whifty
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Not steady; gusty or insubstantial.
Example Sentences
- "The result isn't so much a joke as a whifty vision."
- "It's a fragile, whifty to-do -- never serious, never very funny --- which likens love to witchcraft."
- "On a happier but just as whifty note, I recall pointing out to the synergism aficianados at the top of a company that one of its divisions bore no relation to the parent company or its other divisions."
- "You don't pilot the ship of an experimental community, a congregation of artists, social idealists, and whifty dreamers infected with some of the same kookiness that did in Brook Farm without weathering certain human squalls."
- "John C. Van Dyke's aesthetic soarings about the arid lands passed on whifty ruminations on coyotes, rattlesnakes, and greasewood, but they were horrors of misinformation."
- "I want to say that I think the doctors don't tell women about the side effects because they think that we are so whifty we would develop these side effects out of our own minds, something like that."