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daffing, vbl. n.|ˈdɑːfɪŋ, -æ-|
[f. daff v.1 + -ing1.]
1. Fooling, folly; sportive behaviour or talk; frolicking, toying, merriment.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 449 Into sic daffing putting ȝour delyte, As brutell beist that followis appetyte. 1686G. Stuart Joco-ser. Disc. 39 You would have burst your heart with laughing To've seen the gang so full of daffing. 1787Burns Twa Dogs 43 Until wi' daffin weary grown, Upon a knowe they sat them down. 1823Lockhart Reg. Dalton vii. v. (1842) 416 They're young folk; daffin's natural to them. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xxiii. 232 It was all daffing; it's all nonsense.
2. Mental derangement, insanity.
a1614J. Melvill MS. 58 (Jam.) There he falls into a phrenzie and daffine which keeped him to his death. 1857Dunglison Dict. Med. 274 Daffing, insanity. |