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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A fool; an idiot; a block-head.
  2. To be foolish; make sport; play; toy.
  3. To toss aside; put off; doff.
  4. To turn (one) aside.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A fool; an idiot; a blockhead.
  2. v. intransitive To be foolish; make sport; play; toy.
  3. v. UK, dialect To daunt.
  4. v. transitive To toss aside; put off; doff.
  5. v. transitive To turn (someone) aside; divert.
  6. n. UK, informal Short form of daffodil.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To cast aside; to put off; to doff.
  2. n. obsolete A stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull.
  3. v. Scot. To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy.
  4. v. Prov. Eng. To daunt.

Etymologies

  1. From daffodil. (Wiktionary)

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