ditz

English

Etymology

Back-formation from ditzy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪts/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪts

Noun

ditz (plural ditzes)

1. (informal, somewhat derogatory) A scatterbrained person, especially a woman.

   Synonym: airhead

   • 2019 July 11, Ej Dickson, quoting Vito Gesualdi, “Is Belle Delphine, a.k.a. Bathwater Gamer Girl, the Greatest Troll On the Internet?”, in Rolling Stone‎^[1]:

     It’s clear Belle Delphine is playing a character: the empty-headed gamer girl ditz who floats around spreading love and magic wherever she goes,” says Vito.

   • 2022, Devon Price, chapter 3, in Michele Eniclerico, editor, Unmasking Autism, New York: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 92:

     Crystal says, “I had to become almost a cartoon of vapid femininity to explain why I was so outof it. I couldn’t be good at being a person, but I could be good at being a girl. And my girly-ness could explain why I was so dumb at math and so bad at people. She’s such a ditz.”