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Daffy vs Porky - What's the difference?

daffy | porky |

As a proper noun daffy

is or daffodil .

As an adjective porky is

resembling or characteristic of pork.

As a noun porky is

(cockney rhyming slang) a lie.

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

    porky

    English

    Etymology 1

    From

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling or characteristic of pork.
  • * 2010 , Victor J. Banis, The Blood of Love (page 113)
    • It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.
  • (slang) Rather fat.
    • Synonyms
    * (rather fat) chubby, chunky, tubby

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from (pork pie)

    Noun

    (porkies)
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) A lie.