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Draff vs Daff - What's the difference?

draff | daff |

As nouns the difference between draff and daff

is that draff is dregs; the wash given to swin or cows; hogwash or waste matter while daff is a fool; an idiot; a blockhead or daff can be (british|informal) short form of daffodil.

As a verb daff is

to be foolish; make sport; play; toy or daff can be to toss (aside); to dismiss.

draff

English

Noun

(-)
  • dregs; the wash given to swin or cows; hogwash or waste matter
  • *A crowd immersed in ordure, that appear'd draff of the human body. Dante's Divine comedy, Hell, Canto 18

    • References

    *Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition

    daff

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) daf, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fool; an idiot; a blockhead.
    • Derived terms
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . See above.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be foolish; make sport; play; toy.
    • (Jamieson)
  • (UK, dialect) To daunt.
    • (Grose)
    Derived terms
    * *

    Etymology 3

    Variant of doff.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To toss (aside); to dismiss.
  • * 1599 ,
  • *:DON PEDRO. I would she had bestowed this dotage on me; I would have daffed all other respects and made her half myself.
  • *1948 , (CS Lewis), ‘Notes on the Way’:
  • *:Such is the record of Scripture. Nor can you daff it aside by saying that local and temporary conditions condemned women to silence and private life.
  • To turn (someone) aside; divert.

    • Etymology 4

    From daffodil.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, informal) Short form of daffodil.
    • Get your daffs here - £2 a bunch

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