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ditsy, a. U.S. slang.|ˈdɪtsɪ|
Also ditzy.
[Origin unknown; perh. corruption of dicty a.]
a. = dicty a. a, b. Also, fussy, intricate.
1978Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. (Spring Fashion Suppl.) 23/1 Forget about delicate chains, a ring on every finger, clanking bangles and ditsy earrings. 1979Oberman & Steckler I could have been Contender ii. 8 A ditsy manicurist who's crazy about cats and lives alone. 1981N.Y. Times 3 Dec. c8/5 They'll cook and clean for a week before a party and worry over the ditsy little touches, the table, the flowers, the matching guest towels. 1985Ibid. 29 Jan. c13/3 She also has a big repertory of comic voices, ranging from..a maternal croon to a ditsy English matron's stiff-upper-register.
b. (Esp. of a woman) stupid, scatterbrained; cute.
1980Maledicta III. ii. 245 In this new age of the New Woman, the only old-fashioned girl left may be the drag queen who apes a ditzy, decorative female largely obsolete, much as Mae West (darling of female impersonators) recalls the woman of a past time. 1981Time 12 Jan. 45/1 Bob Newhart plays the President of the United States: Madeline Kahn is his dipso wife, Gilda Radner his ditsy daughter. 1982Christian Science Monitor 26 Mar. 15/1 It is filled with charmingly ‘dotty’ and ‘ditsy’ people who engage in generally ‘gaga’ relationships. 1984Washington Post 20 May h13/1 Willie Scott..is a ditsy blond who sings at a Shanghai nightclub. 1985N.Y. Times 31 Jan. a22/2 According to a wholly unscientific sample, this decade's terms [for ‘dumb’] so far include, besides airhead, retard, ditsy and wifty. 1987Los Angeles Times 7 June 16 What do father and daughter think of television's flashy detectives? Maddie and David on ‘Moonlighting’: ‘They never work. They're ditzy.’
Hence (as a back-formation) ditz, one who is ‘ditsy’, scatterbrained, or cute.
1984N.Y. Times 9 Feb. 19/1 Miss Alexander's portrayals of Anna ranged from ‘a complete ditz’ to playing her ‘as Astarte’. 1985Guardian 22 June 12/4 Meryl Streep is serious, Suzanne Somers isn't. That's the way they're seen{ddd}I don't think Miss Somers does ditsy tap dances when she gets home. I've been both. I used to be a ditz. Now I'm talented. |