dafter

Adjective

daft (comparative dafter, superlative daftest)

1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, informal) Foolish, silly, stupid.
   • a daft idea

   Synonyms:

   asinine, balmy, barmy, bedaft, loony, derpy, dim-headed, dim-witted, dopey, dull-headed

2. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, informal) Crazy, insane, mad.
   • "Ow, he is just a wood harum-scarum creature, that wad never take to his studies;—daft, sir, clean daft." / […] / "[W]owff—a wee bit by the East-Nook or sae; it's a common case—the ae half of the warld thinks t'other daft. I have met with folks in my day, that thought I was daft mysell;[…]" / "I...1824 June, [Walter Scott], “Darsie Latimer’s Journal, in Continuation. Sheet 2.”, in Redgauntlet, […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...

   Synonyms:

   5150, bananas, barking, barking mad, buggish, buggy, bughouse, barmy, batchy, batpoop

3. (obsolete) Gentle, meek, mild.
   • There's mirth in the barn and the ha', the ha', / There's mirth in the barn and the ha': / There's quaffing and laughing, / And dancing and daffing; / And our young bride's daftest of a', of a', / And our young bride's daftest of a'.1825, “Who’s at My Window”, in Allan Cunningham, compiler, The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern; […] In Four Volumes, volume III, London: Printed for John Taylor, […], →OCLC, page 334

Noun

daughter (plural daughters or (archaic) daughtren)

1. One’s female offspring.
   • I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.

   Synonyms:

   girl

2. A female descendant.
   • Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?1950 October, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (fiction)

   Antonyms:

   son

3. A daughter language.
4. A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
5. A descendant.
   • We have distinguished two types of situations from the point of view of the placement of the obligatory X constituent within the phrase XP: one in which X is a daughter of XP, and one in which X is not a daughter of XP, but a daughter of one of the constituents of XP (in an adjunct configuration).2013, Daniela Isac, Charles Reiss, “Chapter 7, Some details of sentence structure”, in I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN...
6. (broadly) A female character of a creator.

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