daffed

Verb (1)

daff (third-person singular simple present daffs, present participle daffing, simple past and past participle daffed)

1. (Scotland, intransitive) To be foolish; make sport; play; toy.
   • We'll hauld our court mid the roaring lins, And daff in the lashan' tide1820 May, unknown author, “Marmaiden of Clyde”, in Edinburgh Magazine
2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To daunt.
   • Young Tam came up and eyed me quick With reddened cheek—Braw Tam was daffed like a chick—He could na speak—Ah Marie they are all gane hame1818, John Keats, To Thomas Keats

Verb (2)

daff (third-person singular simple present daffs, present participle daffing, simple past and past participle daffed)

1. (transitive) To toss (aside); to dismiss.
   • DON PEDRO. I would she had bestowed this dotage on me; I would have daffed all other respects and made her half myself.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
2. (transitive) To turn (someone) aside; divert.

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