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daft laddie question

daft laddie question noun: a question posed to a group by a person feigning stupidity with the aim of making sure all aspects of a subject have been considered.

Noun

daft laddie question (plural daft laddie questions)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A question posed to a group by a person feigning stupidity with the aim of making sure all aspects of a subject have been considered.
    • I'm not immersed in Junior football history, and though I've grown to love it over the years I feel I'm missing a lot of stuff that everyone just seems to know. So I thought the off season was a good time to ask my daft laddie questions. -- Forum post 17/06/2017

Forms of daft laddie question

pluraldaft laddie questions

Questions about daft laddie question

What does daft laddie question mean?
Daft laddie question means a question posed to a group by a person feigning stupidity with the aim of making sure all aspects of a subject have been considered.
What part of speech is daft laddie question?
Daft laddie question is a noun.
What is the plural of daft laddie question?
The plural of daft laddie question is daft laddie questions.

Words near daft laddie question in the dictionary

  1. Dafoe
  2. dafs
  3. daft
  4. daft as a brush
  5. daft laddie
  6. daft laddie question
  7. daft laddie questions
  8. daft laddies
  9. daftar
  10. daftardar
  11. daftardars

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