daffing

American  

[daf-ing] / ˈdæf ɪŋ /

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. silliness; playful behavior; merriment;

2. Archaic. insanity.

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Etymology

Origin of daffing

First recorded in 1525–35; daff ¹ + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

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daffing

And with his merry daffing He set them all a-laughing,     Ha, ha, ha!

From The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright

Aren’t you the sparky blade, the daffing callant, Naffing and nickering like a three-year-old?

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

You are aye daffing, Ian; I am o’er busy for nonsense the now.

From An Orkney Maid by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

It's daffing to lee; it winna deny that the lawing is clean paid.

From The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott

"I think your father was 'at the horn' mair nor yince himsel', mither," said I, remembering certain daffing talk of my father's.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett