daffn.¹

/dɑːf/

/daf/

Forms: Also Middle English daf, deffe, Middle English–1500s daffe.

Etymology: Etymology uncertain: compare daft adj.It has been conjecturally referred to Old Norse dauf deaf, dull, savourless, which survives in Scots dowf, douf dull, spiritless, but this is phonetically inadmissible.

Obsolete exc. northern dialect.

One deficient in sense or in proper spirit; a simpleton, a fool; a coward.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > fool, simpleton > [noun]

boinarda1300

daffc1325

goky1377

nicea1393

unwiseman1400

totc1425

alphinc1440

dawc1500

hoddypeak1500

dawpatea1529

hoddypolla1529

noddy1534

kimec1535

coxcomb1542

sheep1542

sheep's head1542

goose1547

dawcock1556

nodgecock1566

peak-goosea1568

hottie tottie?c1570

Tom Towly1582

wittol1588

goose-cap1589

nodgecomb1592

ninny1593

chicken1600

fopdoodle16..

hoddy-noddy1600

hoddy-doddy1601

peagoose1606

fopster1607

nazold1607

nupson1607

wigeon1607

fondrel1613

simpleton1639

pigwidgeon1640

simpletonian1652

Tony1654

nizy1673

Simple Simon?1673

Tom Farthing1674

totty-head1680

cockcomb1684

cod1699

nikin1699

sap-pate1699

simpkin1699

mackninnya1706

gilly-gaupus?1719

noodle1720

sapskull1735

gobbin?1746

Judy1781

zanya1784

spoony1795

sap-head1798

spoon1799

gomerel1814

sap1815

neddy1818

milestone1819

sunket1823

sunketa1825

gawp1825

gawpy1825

gawpus1826

Tomnoddy1826

Sammy1828

tammie norie1828

Tommy1828

gom1834

noodlehead1835

nowmun1854

gum-sucker1855

flat-head1862

peggy1869

noodledum1883

jay1884

toot1888

peanut head1891

simp1903

sappyhead1922

Arkie1927

putz1928

steamer1932

jerk-off1939

drongo1942

galah1945

Charley1946

nong-nong1959

mouth-breather1979

twonk1981

c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 99 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 328 If the parsoun have a prest of a clene lyf..Shal comen a daffe and putte him out..That can noht a ferthing worth of god.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 129 ‘Þou dotest daffe’ quaþ heo ‘Dulle are þi wittes.’

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 288 And whan this iape is told another day I sal ben halden a daf a Cokenay.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 111/2 Daffe, or dastard, or he þat spekythe not yn tyme, oridurus.

1482 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 315 Yf any brother dysspysse anoder callenge hym knaffe or horson, or deffe.

1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. ii. i. 58 Certes it [Landaffe] is a poore bishoprike..the late incumbent thereof being called for..in open court made answer: ‘The daffe is here, but the land is gone.’

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Daffe, a dastard.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Daff, a half-wit; a coward.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

daffn.²

Brit.

/daf/, U.S.

/dæf/

Etymology: Shortened < daffodil n.

colloquial.

= daffodil n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil

daffodilly1538

daffadowndilly1573

yellow crow-bells1578

daffodil1592

Lide-flower1609

Lide-lily1609

trumpet1705

daffy1777

Lent rose1796

chalice-flower1824

Lent lilya1825

Lenten lily1874

dilly1878

Golden Spur1886

trumpet daffodil1895

King Alfred1899

daff1915

bell-rose-

1915 C. Mackenzie Guy & Pauline vi. 307 ‘We shall have all the daffs gone before we know where we are,’ said the Rector.

1934 D. L. Sayers Nine Tailors 69 You want a few more daffs. on the decani side, Mrs. Venables.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

daffv.¹

Brit.

/dɑːf/,

/daf/, U.S.

/dæf/, Scottish English

/daf/

Etymology: < daff n.¹Compare the dialect daffle to become stupid, grow imbecile; also to dumbfounder, confuse the faculties; daffly imbecile, stupid from failure of the faculties. Whitby Gloss.

Chiefly Scottish.

1. intransitive. To play the fool; to make sport, toy, dally, talk or behave sportively.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > be or become foolish [verb (intransitive)] > act foolishly

dotec1225

foleyec1374

fop1528

fond1530

daff1535

pract1568

dolt1573

daw1596

fool1597

guck1603

baboonize1611

prat1685

to play the fool1722

niff-naff1728

fopple1756

doitera1790

daffle1796

tomfool1825

to play (also act) the (giddy) goat1841

lallygag1862

silly1877

monkey1878

footle1891

to ass around1899

to play silly buggers (also beggars, bleeders, etc.)1903

to arse around1919

to jackass around1927

nimble-pimble1927

to fuck about1929

to fool up1933

to crap around1936

pantomime1958

prat1961

dork1990

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > lack of seriousness > act or speak with lack of seriousness [verb (intransitive)]

jest1530

daff1535

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 342 Quhat do ȝe now? I se ȝe do bot daf.

a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 662 Dastard, thou daffes, that with such divilrie mels.

1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems I. 175 (Jam.) Come yont the green an' daff wi' me, My charming dainty Davy.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Daff, to chat in a daudling way; to loiter. Also to falter in memory; ‘beginning to daff’.

1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped iv. 30 Gentlemen daffing at their wine.

†2. transitive. To daunt. northern dialect. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > intimidate or bully [verb (transitive)] > daunt (a person's) courage

cowardc1300

anarrowc1400

accowardize1480

accoward1481

daunton1535

quail1548

daunt1569

quay1590

disheart1603

dishearten1606

cravena1616

break1619

unsoula1634

unnerve1638

cowardize1648

daff1673

to put (a person) off his (also her) mettle1745

becoward1831

1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 13 Daffe, to Daunt.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

daffv.²

/dɑːf/

/daf/

Etymology: A variant of doff v. to do off, put off. (Johnson, misunderstanding the past tense, as in quot. 1598 at sense 2a, made the present stem daft.)

†1. transitive. To put off (as clothes); to throw off, divest oneself of. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > take off clothing

to do offeOE

to lay downc1275

to weve offc1290

stripc1320

doffa1375

loose1382

ofdrawa1393

casta1400

to take offa1400

warpa1400

to cast offc1400

to catch offc1400

waivec1400

voidc1407

to put off?a1425

to wap offc1440

to lay from, offc1480

despoil1483

to pull offc1500

slip1535

devest1566

to shift off1567

daff1609

discuss1640

to lay off1699

strip1762

douse1780

shuffle1837

derobe1841

shed1858

skin1861

peel1888

pull1888

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > from the position of being on

latcha1225

off-wevec1300

to take offa1400

to get off1577

to lay offa1593

daff1609

off1826

1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. L2 There my white stole of chastity I daft.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. iv. 13 He that vnbuckles this, till we do please To daft [= daff't] for our Repose, shall heare a storme.

a. To put or turn aside, to thrust aside; esp. in the Shakespearean phrase to daff the world aside (= to bid or make it get out of one's way), and imitations of this (sometimes vaguely applied).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss from consideration

forheedc1275

sequesterc1380

forlaya1400

to lay awaya1400

to put, set or lay byc1425

to lay by1439

to lay asidec1440

to set, lay, put apart1477

bar1481

to lay apart1526

to throw out1576

disclude1586

to fling aside1587

to fling away1587

exclude1593

daff1598

to throw by1644

eliminate1850

to write off1861

to filter out1934

slam-dunk1975

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. i. 96 The..madcap prince of Wales, And his Cumrades that daft the world aside And bid it passe.

1599 W. Shakespeare et al. Passionate Pilgrime (new ed.) sig. B8 She bad good night, that kept my rest away, And daft me to a cabben hangde with care.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 78 Claudio Away, I will not haue to doe with you. Leonato Canst thou so daffe me?

1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Avij We daft the world with time ourselues beguiled.

1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 36 Some knotty problem, that had daft His patient thought.

1880 G. Smith in Atlantic Monthly No. 268. 202 We have no right to daff a pessimist's argument aside merely because [etc.].

1884 Sat. Rev. 14 June 787/1 Its pleasant fashion of daffing the world aside.

†b. To put off (with an excuse, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > evade (responsibility or obligation) > a person or demand with an excuse

to put off1569

fub1600

daffa1616

to put by1618

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) iv. ii. 180 Euery day thou dafts [1622 dofftst] me with some deuise Iago.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

n.¹c1325

n.²1915

v.¹1535

v.²1598

单词	daff
释义	daffn.¹ /dɑːf//daf/ Forms: Also Middle English daf, deffe, Middle English–1500s daffe. Etymology: Etymology uncertain: compare daft adj.It has been conjecturally referred to Old Norse dauf deaf, dull, savourless, which survives in Scots dowf, douf dull, spiritless, but this is phonetically inadmissible. Obsolete exc. northern dialect. One deficient in sense or in proper spirit; a simpleton, a fool; a coward. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > fool, simpleton > [noun] boinarda1300 daffc1325 goky1377 nicea1393 unwiseman1400 totc1425 alphinc1440 dawc1500 hoddypeak1500 dawpatea1529 hoddypolla1529 noddy1534 kimec1535 coxcomb1542 sheep1542 sheep's head1542 goose1547 dawcock1556 nodgecock1566 peak-goosea1568 hottie tottie?c1570 Tom Towly1582 wittol1588 goose-cap1589 nodgecomb1592 ninny1593 chicken1600 fopdoodle16.. hoddy-noddy1600 hoddy-doddy1601 peagoose1606 fopster1607 nazold1607 nupson1607 wigeon1607 fondrel1613 simpleton1639 pigwidgeon1640 simpletonian1652 Tony1654 nizy1673 Simple Simon?1673 Tom Farthing1674 totty-head1680 cockcomb1684 cod1699 nikin1699 sap-pate1699 simpkin1699 mackninnya1706 gilly-gaupus?1719 noodle1720 sapskull1735 gobbin?1746 Judy1781 zanya1784 spoony1795 sap-head1798 spoon1799 gomerel1814 sap1815 neddy1818 milestone1819 sunket1823 sunketa1825 gawp1825 gawpy1825 gawpus1826 Tomnoddy1826 Sammy1828 tammie norie1828 Tommy1828 gom1834 noodlehead1835 nowmun1854 gum-sucker1855 flat-head1862 peggy1869 noodledum1883 jay1884 toot1888 peanut head1891 simp1903 sappyhead1922 Arkie1927 putz1928 steamer1932 jerk-off1939 drongo1942 galah1945 Charley1946 nong-nong1959 mouth-breather1979 twonk1981 c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 99 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 328 If the parsoun have a prest of a clene lyf..Shal comen a daffe and putte him out..That can noht a ferthing worth of god. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 129 ‘Þou dotest daffe’ quaþ heo ‘Dulle are þi wittes.’ c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 288 And whan this iape is told another day I sal ben halden a daf a Cokenay. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 111/2 Daffe, or dastard, or he þat spekythe not yn tyme, oridurus. 1482 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 315 Yf any brother dysspysse anoder callenge hym knaffe or horson, or deffe. 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. ii. i. 58 Certes it [Landaffe] is a poore bishoprike..the late incumbent thereof being called for..in open court made answer: ‘The daffe is here, but the land is gone.’ 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Daffe, a dastard. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Daff, a half-wit; a coward. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020). daffn.² Brit. /daf/, U.S. /dæf/ Etymology: Shortened < daffodil n. colloquial. = daffodil n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil daffodilly1538 daffadowndilly1573 yellow crow-bells1578 daffodil1592 Lide-flower1609 Lide-lily1609 trumpet1705 daffy1777 Lent rose1796 chalice-flower1824 Lent lilya1825 Lenten lily1874 dilly1878 Golden Spur1886 trumpet daffodil1895 King Alfred1899 daff1915 bell-rose- 1915 C. Mackenzie Guy & Pauline vi. 307 ‘We shall have all the daffs gone before we know where we are,’ said the Rector. 1934 D. L. Sayers Nine Tailors 69 You want a few more daffs. on the decani side, Mrs. Venables. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). daffv.¹ Brit. /dɑːf/, /daf/, U.S. /dæf/, Scottish English /daf/ Etymology: < daff n.¹Compare the dialect daffle to become stupid, grow imbecile; also to dumbfounder, confuse the faculties; daffly imbecile, stupid from failure of the faculties. Whitby Gloss. Chiefly Scottish. 1. intransitive. To play the fool; to make sport, toy, dally, talk or behave sportively. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > be or become foolish [verb (intransitive)] > act foolishly dotec1225 foleyec1374 fop1528 fond1530 daff1535 pract1568 dolt1573 daw1596 fool1597 guck1603 baboonize1611 prat1685 to play the fool1722 niff-naff1728 fopple1756 doitera1790 daffle1796 tomfool1825 to play (also act) the (giddy) goat1841 lallygag1862 silly1877 monkey1878 footle1891 to ass around1899 to play silly buggers (also beggars, bleeders, etc.)1903 to arse around1919 to jackass around1927 nimble-pimble1927 to fuck about1929 to fool up1933 to crap around1936 pantomime1958 prat1961 dork1990 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > lack of seriousness > act or speak with lack of seriousness [verb (intransitive)] jest1530 daff1535 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 342 Quhat do ȝe now? I se ȝe do bot daf. a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 662 Dastard, thou daffes, that with such divilrie mels. 1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems I. 175 (Jam.) Come yont the green an' daff wi' me, My charming dainty Davy. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Daff, to chat in a daudling way; to loiter. Also to falter in memory; ‘beginning to daff’. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped iv. 30 Gentlemen daffing at their wine. †2. transitive. To daunt. northern dialect. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > intimidate or bully [verb (transitive)] > daunt (a person's) courage cowardc1300 anarrowc1400 accowardize1480 accoward1481 daunton1535 quail1548 daunt1569 quay1590 disheart1603 dishearten1606 cravena1616 break1619 unsoula1634 unnerve1638 cowardize1648 daff1673 to put (a person) off his (also her) mettle1745 becoward1831 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 13 Daffe, to Daunt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). daffv.² /dɑːf//daf/ Etymology: A variant of doff v. to do off, put off. (Johnson, misunderstanding the past tense, as in quot. 1598 at sense 2a, made the present stem daft.) †1. transitive. To put off (as clothes); to throw off, divest oneself of. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > take off clothing to do offeOE to lay downc1275 to weve offc1290 stripc1320 doffa1375 loose1382 ofdrawa1393 casta1400 to take offa1400 warpa1400 to cast offc1400 to catch offc1400 waivec1400 voidc1407 to put off?a1425 to wap offc1440 to lay from, offc1480 despoil1483 to pull offc1500 slip1535 devest1566 to shift off1567 daff1609 discuss1640 to lay off1699 strip1762 douse1780 shuffle1837 derobe1841 shed1858 skin1861 peel1888 pull1888 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > from the position of being on latcha1225 off-wevec1300 to take offa1400 to get off1577 to lay offa1593 daff1609 off1826 1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. L2 There my white stole of chastity I daft. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. iv. 13 He that vnbuckles this, till we do please To daft [= daff't] for our Repose, shall heare a storme. View more context for this quotation 2. a. To put or turn aside, to thrust aside; esp. in the Shakespearean phrase to daff the world aside (= to bid or make it get out of one's way), and imitations of this (sometimes vaguely applied). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss from consideration forheedc1275 sequesterc1380 forlaya1400 to lay awaya1400 to put, set or lay byc1425 to lay by1439 to lay asidec1440 to set, lay, put apart1477 bar1481 to lay apart1526 to throw out1576 disclude1586 to fling aside1587 to fling away1587 exclude1593 daff1598 to throw by1644 eliminate1850 to write off1861 to filter out1934 slam-dunk1975 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. i. 96 The..madcap prince of Wales, And his Cumrades that daft the world aside And bid it passe. View more context for this quotation 1599 W. Shakespeare et al. Passionate Pilgrime (new ed.) sig. B8 She bad good night, that kept my rest away, And daft me to a cabben hangde with care. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 78 Claudio Away, I will not haue to doe with you. Leonato Canst thou so daffe me? View more context for this quotation 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Avij We daft the world with time ourselues beguiled. 1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 36 Some knotty problem, that had daft His patient thought. 1880 G. Smith in Atlantic Monthly No. 268. 202 We have no right to daff a pessimist's argument aside merely because [etc.]. 1884 Sat. Rev. 14 June 787/1 Its pleasant fashion of daffing the world aside. †b. To put off (with an excuse, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > evade (responsibility or obligation) > a person or demand with an excuse to put off1569 fub1600 daffa1616 to put by1618 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) iv. ii. 180 Euery day thou dafts [1622 dofftst] me with some deuise Iago. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹c1325n.²1915v.¹1535v.²1598
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