Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Silly; foolish.
- adjective Crazy.
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- adjective a little
crazy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
MetaTalk phunniemee 2010
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Sun once called her daffy, but there was a constant theme in her verbal ramblings.
Blog updates 2009
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Sun once called her daffy, but there was a constant theme in her verbal ramblings.
Blog updates 2009
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Sun once called her daffy, but there was a constant theme in her verbal ramblings.
Blog updates 2009
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Jones' preferation for the angry Daffy does more than demolish the original purpose behind the character; to be "daffy".
John, Alias Johnny, Alias Jack, Alias Jackie Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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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.
The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992
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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 Wade C. Smith
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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.
The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890
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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 2010
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One attendant said sorority girls are stereotyped as "daffy," upper-class and superficial.
dailytarheel.com - Serving the University community since 1893 moviefan12 2010
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