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daft

[daft, dahft]
–adjective, -er, -est.
1. senseless, stupid, or foolish.
2. insane; crazy.
3. Scot. merry; playful; frolicsome.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME dafte uncouth, awkward; earlier, gentle, meek, OE dæfte; cf. deft


daftly, adverb
daftness, noun
daft   (dāft)   
adj.   daft·er, daft·est
  1. Mad; crazy.
  2. Foolish; stupid.
  3. Scots Frolicsome.

[Middle English dafte, foolish, from Old English gedæfte, meek.]
daft'ly adv., daft'ness n.

Daft

Daft\ (d[.a]ft), a. [OE. daft, deft, deft, stupid; prob. the same word as E. deft. See Deft.]

1. Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft.

Let us think no more of this daft business --Sir W. Scott.

2. Gay; playful; frolicsome. [Scot.] --Jamieson.

daft 
O.E. gedæfte "gentle, becoming," from P.Gmc. *gadaftjaz. Sense progression from "mildness" to "dullness" (14c.) to "foolish" (15c.) to "crazy" (1536), probably influenced by analogy with daffe "halfwit."
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