Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Crazy; deranged.
- adjective Foolish; stupid.
- adjective Scots Frolicsome.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Simple; stupid; foolish; weak-minded; silly: applied to persons or things.
- Insane.
- Playful; frolicsome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane.
- adjective Scot. Gay; playful; frolicsome.
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- adjective
insane ,mad - adjective
silly - adjective
stupid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The point of Finkelstien bringing this to the attention of The Times readerproloteriat was to hopefully empathize with the inanity of certain daft policing strategies, dreamed up by promotion hungry cretins.
Welcome ‘Times’ Readers « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The point of Finkelstien bringing this to the attention of The Times readerproloteriat was to hopefully empathize with the inanity of certain daft policing strategies, dreamed up by promotion hungry cretins.
Welcome ‘Times’ Readers « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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How daft is this thing going to get before even the wackiest of the wacky get migraines or something and for the love of Pete, just mercifully let all the twaddle go??
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How daft is this thing going to get before even the wackiest of the wacky get migraines or something and for the love of Pete, just mercifully let all the twaddle go??
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How daft is this thing going to get before even the wackiest of the wacky get migraines or something and for the love of Pete, just mercifully let all the twaddle go??
Gov. Schwarzenegger To Endorse Mc Cain Tomorrow! Umm, Is That Supposed To Be A Good Thing? 2008
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How daft is this thing going to get before even the wackiest of the wacky get migraines or something and for the love of Pete, just mercifully let all the twaddle go??
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And the whole Thotsakan brouhaha looks daft from a Western perspective, but a lot of people here in Thailand do take this sort of thing very seriously.
The Wrath of Khon Matthew Guerrieri 2006
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This is an interesting argument – some might call it daft – but it is about to be road-tested in the theatre of major championship golf by the two best players in the world, Lee Westwood and Luke Donald.
Luke Donald and Lee Westwood get serious about relaxation for US PGA 2011
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We do, however, recall a daft corny film where a ridiculous hairy Michael J. Fox who looked more like Teen Ape slam dunked a basketball a few times.
Teen Wolf to become a TV series : Chronicles Network: Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010
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We do, however, recall a daft corny film where a ridiculous hairy Michael J. Fox who looked more like Teen Ape slam dunked a basketball a few times.
2010 May : Chronicles Network: Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010
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Neal’s candy recipe included a mix of sugar, gum, water, peppermint oil, and daft. “Daft was a sort of gypsum powder,” says Sellers, “put into products to replace some of the sugar and reduce the cost of production.” Adding bulking agents to food was common and legal at the time. Sweets, though, were particularly prone to adulteration due to the high cost of sugar.
How Tainted Treats Led to a Halloween Tragedy in 1858 Jenny Elliott 2021
alexz commented on the word daft
"A gentleman who signs himself Eboracensis (whose letter has been published) and who is more ingenuous in his acknowledgments of the few merits we can boast of, than our other correspondents, finds fault with us for saying, that in the northern counties of England, young frolicksome persons who act madly or extravagantly, are called daft: ' On the contrary (says Mr Eboracensis) here in Yorkshirem a person is called daft, when (instead of acting madly or extravagantly) he is scarce able either to act or even speak at all ---in a public company; insomuch, that here a daft or sheepish person are synonimous terms.' We are sorry we must differ from this gentleman in a point of fact, for such is the provincial signification of a word; and perhaps we were a little wanting in precision when our reference for the meaning of the word, in general, was to the northern counties of England. Neither shall we dispute that in the parts where Eboracensis lives the word daft may signify a sheepish person. We cannot, however, retract the meaning we have fixed to the word, and we insist that it is common in the northern parts of the island. We could for what we advance, appeal to Mr and Mrs Ogilvie's trial, where the word occurs precisely in the sense we have given it ."
The critical review, or annals of literature, Volume 21 page 240. http://books.google.ca/books?id=dIpKAAAAcAAJ 1766
July 15, 2013