different between fifty vs wifty

English

Alternative forms

• fiftie (archaic)
• fitty (slang)

Etymology

From Old English f?fti?, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“fifty”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?f't?, IPA^(key): /?f?fti/

Numeral

fifty

1. The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.

Synonyms

• Arabic numerals: 50
• Roman numerals: L

Translations

See also

• Last: forty-nine, forty
• Next: fifty-one, sixty

Noun

fifty (plural fifties)

1. (countable) A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.

   Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?

2. (cricket) A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.

Translations

Anagrams

• Tiffy

English

Etymology

From *wift +? -y. First element is of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?f.ti/

Adjective

wifty (comparative wiftier, superlative wiftiest)

1. Eccentric, silly, scatterbrained.
   • 2004, Steven Rea, "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.

   • 2009, Emily Listfield, Best Intentions, Atria Books (2009), ?ISBN, 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; […]

   • 2012, Cheryl Glenn, The Harbrace Guide to Writing, Wadsworth (2012), ?ISBN, 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 […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wifty.

Synonyms

• ditsy/ditzy

See also

• wifty-wafty