daff
1 Americanverb (used without object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of daff1
1525–35; v. use of daff (obsolete) a fool, Middle English daffe (noun); see daft
Origin of daff2
First recorded in 1590–1600; alteration of doff
Example Sentences
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No that the King is sair to live with either, so that he can eat and drink and daff, and be let alone to take his ease.
From Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Where is his son, The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales, And his comrades, that daff the world aside, And bid it pass?
From King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
At thorny bush, or birken tree, We 'll daff and never weary, O!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
But, ah! while we daff in the sunshine of youth, We see na' the blasts that destroy; We count na' upon the fell waes that may come, An eithly o'ercloud a' our joy.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
Their cheerfulness and gayety is irrepressible, and no people on earth understand better how "to daff the world aside and bid it pass."
From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Francis Parkman
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