daft

dɑːft

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#1·2h ago

(chiefly, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Foolish, silly, stupid.

Origin: From , defte, from , from . Related to , dafenian, . . Compare silly which originally meant “blessed; good, innocent; pitiful; weak”, but now means “laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance; mentally simple, foolish”. Unrelated to, though perhaps influenced by, fool (n.); to be foolish (v.) (past form daffed). Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·2h ago

(chiefly, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Crazy, insane, mad.

Thou art the daftest fuill that ever I saw. / [[trow

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#3·2h ago

(obsolete) Gentle, meek, mild.

In case you haven't heard of them [the Taipings], I must tell you that they were another of those incredible phenomena that made China the topsy-turvey mess it was, like some fantastic land from Gulliver, where everything was upside down…

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