Daffy vs Affy - What's the difference?

daffy | affy |

As a proper noun daffy

is or daffodil .

As a verb affy is

(obsolete|intransitive) to trust ((in) someone or something); to rely ((on)).

As a noun affy is

(slang) an affidavit to be signed by a contest winner to confirm eligibility.

daffy

English

Adjective

(er)

a little crazy

* 1899 , [http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/cather/writings/shortfiction/westbound.html]

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.

*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.

Synonyms

* nutty as a fruitcake

affy
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) afier, from (affidare).
Verb

(obsolete) To trust ((in) someone or something); to rely ((on)).

* c. 1590 , (William Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus , First Folio 1623, I.1:

Marcus Andronicus, so I do affie / In thy vprightnesse and Integrity […].

(obsolete) To promise to marry (someone); to be engaged to.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:

He, though affide unto a former love, / To whom his faith he firmely ment to hold, / […] Her graunted love, but with affection cold […].

Etymology 2
Shortening of (affidavit).
Noun
(affies)
(slang) An affidavit to be signed by a contest winner to confirm eligibility.

* 1997 , "Sandretto", Singapore Contest....'' (on newsgroup ''alt.consumers.sweepstakes )

If you have won a monthly prize, they will send you an affy and have you send it back. Then your prize comes from a courier.

* 1999 , "Suzy", Any BIG winners?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.consumers.sweepstakes )

The contest ended in mid November, I got the affy Christmas eve, and I picked up the car February 4th or 5th.