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In some senses, daffy is marked as informal, dated, slang, colloquial, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
daffy
/ˈdæfi/
name 3noun 2adj 1
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4ADJ.
poor, tealess
VERB + DAFFY
get, give, gone, name
DAFFY + NOUN
mann, mrs, widow
PREP.
about
Definitions
adj
1
Somewhat mad or eccentric.
Now I'm hungry as a Rocky Mountain lion so come, let's go and get this poor, daffy, tealess widow and wine and dine with her and make it all up.
"You've gone so plum daffy you are forgetting your dinner," jeered her mother.
noun
1
A daffodil.
noun
1
Gin.
1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist “Do you give the children Daffy, Mrs. Mann?” inquired Bumble, following with his eyes the interesting process of mixing.
[…] he failed repeatedly until he took over his famous house in Haymarket, where for many years, surrounded by such admirers as Byron, Tom Moore and Hazlitt, he smoked his yard of clay, drained his glass of 'daffy', and […]
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Now I'm hungry as a Rocky Mountain lion so come, let's go and get this poor, daffy, tealess widow and wine and dine with her and make it all up.
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"You've gone so plum daffy you are forgetting your dinner," jeered her mother.
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He was daffy about her and she could twist him around her little finger.
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1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist “Do you give the children Daffy, Mrs. Mann?” inquired Bumble, following with his eyes the interesting process of mixing.
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[…] he failed repeatedly until he took over his famous house in Haymarket, where for many years, surrounded by such admirers as Byron, Tom Moore and Hazlitt, he smoked his yard of clay, drained his gl
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Within Castle Tavern, at Holborn, Charles Perth and Lord Lucan were drowning their disparate sorrows in a glass of daffy.
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