Meaning

4 senses

  1. (Scotland, intransitive)To be foolish; make sport; play; toy.

  2. (transitive)To toss (aside); to dismiss.

  3. (transitive)To turn (someone) aside; divert.

  4. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)To daunt.

Origin

From Middle English daffen (“to render foolish”), from daf, daffe (“fool, idiot”). See abo

From Middle English daffen (“to render foolish”), from daf, daffe (“fool, idiot”). See above.

Variant of doff.

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Forms

daffs, daffing, daffed, daffed
Base formdaff · to daff
3rd person singulardaffs
Present participledaffing
Past simpledaffed
Past participledaffed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydaff
he, she, itdaffs

Past simpleLesson

all personsdaffed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave daffed
he, she, ithas daffed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill daff

Word family

1 related words
Deriveddaffing

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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