Daffy

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈdæfi/
• Rhymes: -æfi

Origin

From daff + -y.

Full definition of daffy

Adjective

1. a little crazy
• 1899, Willa Cather, http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/cather/writings/shortfiction/westbound.htmlNow I'm hungry as a Rocky Mountain lion so come, let's go and get this poor, daffy, tealess widow and wine and dine with her and make it all up.
• 1909, Gene Stratton-Porter, ,"You've gone so plum daffy you are forgetting your dinner," jeered her mother.
• 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O Russet Witch!,He was daffy about her and she could twist him around her little finger.

Synonyms

• nutty as a fruitcake