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Daffy vs Lunatic - What's the difference?

daffy | lunatic |

As adjectives the difference between daffy and lunatic

is that daffy is a little crazy while lunatic is crazed, mad, insane, demented.

As a proper noun Daffy

is {{given name|female|diminutive=Daphne}} or Daffodil.

As a noun lunatic is

an insane person.

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

    lunatic

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An insane person.

    • Synonyms

    * (l) * See also

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • crazed, mad, insane, demented

    • Synonyms

    * crazed, insane, mad, demented, maniacal, psychotic, crazed; see also