Definitions
Etymologies
- From daff + -y. (Wiktionary)
- From obsolete daff, fool, from Middle English daffe; probably akin to dafte, foolish; see daft. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I do sometimes wish we could flag posts that are in some way related to post flags, when I'm feeling a bit daffy, which is always.”
“Sun once called her daffy, but there was a constant theme in her verbal ramblings.”
“Jones' preferation for the angry Daffy does more than demolish the original purpose behind the character; to be "daffy".”
“One I'd shipped with from New Amsterdam t'the Hesperides, heap o 'times; dropped back in at his home port, got kind of daffy overa doll and just lingered.”
“He is the happy and enthusiastic pastor of a large and growing congregation, which congregation is simply "daffy" about him.”
"Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues
“Bill now tried his hand at Wild West theatricals, seeing that already many Easterners were "daffy," as he called it, about the West; but he failed at this, and went back once more to the plains where he belonged.”
“I hold no brief for Cherie Blair, but she had a kind of daffy genius for lifting the lid on the Blair marriage in ways that revealed far more than she realised.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“One attendant said sorority girls are stereotyped as "daffy," upper-class and superficial.”
dailytarheel.com - Serving the University community since 1893
“In 1989, she called Steven Soderbergh's first feature "daffy”
“It presents the movie as some kind of daffy romantic comedy, with Ewan McGregor and Tara Fitzgerald being the only actors of interest.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘daffy’.
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 65 more...
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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Winter's Bone vocabulary
Study list of difficult words from Daniel Woodrell's novel Winter's Bone. In reverse order: start at the bottom to see words from the beginning of the novel!
plaid, lazy susan, lope, furtive, dour, scamper, hard-boiled, implacable, dainty, stomp, resignation, crank and 138 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1696 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Names in General.
Both derogatory and conciliatory.
coxcomb, hepcat, macaroni, buck, scuzzbucket, daddy-o, beatnik, ducky, honky, ninnyhammer, bloke, blighter and 44 more...
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Scriptie: Miller's Crossing
By the Coen brothers, 1990.
ethics, high hat, schnook, elves, schmatta, the fix, guinea, on the nose, greengrocer, bookie, protection money, rumpus and 80 more...
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Freestyle skiing words
mogul, cat out the window, birani, backscratcher, daffy, twister, double full full ..., half randy full, helicopter, hero bumps, iron cross, kosak and 12 more...
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words that make me laugh
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