Daff vs Daffy - What's the difference?
daff | daffy |
To toss (aside); to dismiss.
* 1599 ,
*:DON PEDRO. I would she had bestowed this dotage on me; I would have daffed all other respects and made her half myself.
*1948 , (CS Lewis), ‘Notes on the Way’:
*:Such is the record of Scripture. Nor can you daff it aside by saying that local and temporary conditions condemned women to silence and private life.
To turn (someone) aside; divert.
a little crazy
* 1899 , [http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/cather/writings/shortfiction/westbound.html]
*1909 , Gene Stratton-Porter,
*:"You've gone so plum daffy you are forgetting your dinner," jeered her mother.
*1922 , F. Scott Fitzgerald, O Russet Witch! ,
*:He was daffy about her and she could twist him around her little finger.
As a noun daff
is a fool; an idiot; a blockhead or daff can be (british|informal) short form of daffodil.As a verb daff
is to be foolish; make sport; play; toy or daff can be to toss (aside); to dismiss.As a proper noun daffy is
or daffodil .daff
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) daf, .Derived terms
* * * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) . See above.Derived terms
* *Etymology 3
Variant of doff.Verb
(en verb)Etymology 4
From daffodil.Anagrams
*daffy
English
Adjective
(er)- Now I'm hungry as a Rocky Mountain lion so come, let's go and get this poor, daffy , tealess widow and wine and dine with her and make it all up.