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daftie

daftie is the alternative form of dafty.

Meaning of dafty

Noun

dafty (plural dafties)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A daft person.
    • You don't need to open my door for me, you dafty!2016, Kiki Archer, Lost in the Starlight, page 142

Forms of daftie

pluraldafties

Origin of daftie

From daft + -ie.

Questions about daftie

What is daftie the alternative form of?
Daftie is the alternative form of dafty.

Words near daftie in the dictionary

  1. daftening
  2. daftens
  3. dafter
  4. dafters
  5. daftest
  6. daftie
  7. dafties
  8. daftish
  9. daftlike
  10. daftly
  11. daftness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daftie (page history and authors); dafty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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