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- noun Scotland, Northern England a
daft person
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Examples
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Kate laughed the idea to scorn, saying over and over that the boy must be "dafty," but still his mind was unchanged.
Frank Merriwell Down South Burt L. Standish 1905
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Mario was a dafty, a pure numpty, and he didn't have a clue what he was doing.
Riding the tube to work Gill Hoffs 2011
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The trick here is to distinguish the haunting from the depressing day to day life of the tower block inhabitants, from the stumblebums who stagger about its dimly-lit hallways and the parents of the dead boy who sit zombie-like in front of their television ankle deep in empty lager cans to Lizzie, whose reward for the sin of sensitivity is to be labeled a liar at home and a "fuckin' dafty" at school.
Problems upstairs Arbogast 2009
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The old man folded his arms, and kept saying nein and nicht, which any dafty could tell were Clanker for “no.”
LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009
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The old man folded his arms, and kept saying nein and nicht, which any dafty could tell were Clanker for “no.”
LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009
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"Och, but you're a dafty, you are," she said calmly enough, but her eyes glared at him furiously.
Tender Rebel Lindsey, Johanna 1988
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"Have you-uns gone plumb dafty?" asked the girl, in a dazed way.
Frank Merriwell Down South Burt L. Standish 1905
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"He's nane sa dafty as he looks," thought Mrs. Jasher, who was Scotch, although she claimed to be cosmopolitan.
The Green Mummy Fergus Hume 1895
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A dafty, maybe, but not a coward. 56 in the last ten overs.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Gabby Babble - ... to lilyroseallen @lilyroseallen oy dafty fella ring me on my cellular woman. d message me for the new digiez about 1 hour ago from web in reply to lilyroseallen
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