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Daft vs Daffy - What's the difference?

daft | daffy |

As adjectives the difference between daft and daffy

is that daft is insane, mad while daffy is a little crazy.

As a proper noun Daffy is

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

daft

English

(wikipedia daft)

Adjective

(er)
  • insane, mad
  • silly
  • stupid

    • Synonyms

    * soft

    Derived terms

    * as daft as a brush

    Anagrams

    *

    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