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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

Gifty-wifty

Hello, could anyone explain what a gifty-wifty shop is? Thanks in advance.
  

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More context please. It may be a sneering or disparaging way of saying "gift shop".

— GPY

  • More context please.
  • It may be a sneering or disparaging way of saying "gift shop".
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More context please. It may be a sneering or disparaging way of saying "gift shop".
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I took the entire family to the sort of gifty-wifty shop where the smell of potpourri is so pungent that it makes you go cross-eyed.
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Anonymousgifty-wifty
It's a made-up word.
Gift + whiff
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In the US, this would be baby-talk, that is, a word you'd use when talking to an infant who would not be able to understand what you're saying, for example:

Mom to toddler: "Does baby want to go to the gifty-wifty shop to buy daddy-kins something for Daddy's Day (i.e.: Father's Day)?"
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In this example it is, as GPY said, a sneering or disparaging way of saying "gift shop".

Clive
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