daffingn.
/ˈdɑːfɪŋ//ˈdafɪŋ/ 1. Fooling, folly; sportive behaviour or talk; frolicking, toying, merriment.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun]
rampinga1425
daffing1535
May game1571
horseplay1590
hoiting1594
wantonizing1598
roguery1611
romperinga1625
hoity-toity1668
frolicking1676
frolic1677
romping1694
wantoning1701
vagary1791
skylarking1809
larking1813
rollicking1823
high-jinking1891
shenaniganning1924
grab-ass1948
mollocking1959
bants2008
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 449 Into sic daffing putting ȝour delyte, As brutell beist that followis appetyte.
1686 G. Stuart Joco-serious Disc. 39 You would have burst your heart with laughing To've seen the gang so full of daffing.
1794 R. Burns Twa Dogs vi, in Poems (new ed.) 4 Until wi' daffin weary grown, Upon a knowe they sat them down.
1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton III. vii. v. 157 They're young folk; daffin's natural to them.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xxiii. 232 It was all daffing; it's all nonsense.
2. Mental derangement, insanity.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness
woodnessc1000
woodshipc1000
madshipc1225
woodc1275
woodhead1303
ragec1330
amentiaa1398
madnessa1398
frenzy?a1400
madheada1400
maddingc1400
alienation?a1425
furiosity?a1475
derverye1480
forcenery1480
furiousnessc1500
unwitness1527
unwitting1527
demencya1529
straughtness1530
insaniea1538
brainsickness1541
lunacy1541
amenty1557
distraughtness1576
dementation?1583
straughtedness1583
insanity1590
crazedness1593
bedlam1598
dementia1598
insanation1599
non compos mentis1607
distraction1609
daffinga1614
disinsanitya1625
cerebrosity1647
vecordy1656
fanaticness1662
non-sanity1675
insaneness1730
craziness1755
hydrophobia1760
vecord1788
derangement1800
vesania1800
a screw loose1810
unsoundness1825
dementedness1833
craze1841
psychosis1847
crackiness1861
feyness1873
crack1891
meshugas1898
white ant1908
crackedness1910
pottiness1933
loopiness1939
wackiness1941
screwballism1942
kink1959
a1614 J. Melville MS. Mem. 58 (Jam.) There he falls into a phrenzie and daffine which keeped him to his death.
1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 274 Daffing, insanity.
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