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Daffy vs Idiotic - What's the difference?

daffy | idiotic |

As a proper noun daffy

is or daffodil .

As an adjective idiotic is

pertaining to or resembling an idiot; afflicted with idiocy.

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

    idiotic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ?idiotick (qualifier)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; afflicted with idiocy.
  • Having the quality of idiocy; very foolish; stupid; nonsensical.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * idiocy * idiot * idiotically

    References

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