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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Mad; crazy.
  2. adj. Foolish; stupid.
  3. adj. Scots Frolicsome.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Simple; stupid; foolish; weak-minded; silly: applied to persons or things.
  2. Insane.
  3. Playful; frolicsome.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. insane, mad
  2. adj. silly
  3. adj. stupid

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane.
  2. adj. Gay; playful; frolicsome.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

Etymologies

  1. Middle English dafte, foolish, from Old English gedæfte, meek.

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