Definitions for daffing

daffing daf·fing

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IPA: /ˈdæf ɪŋ/

Daffing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in daffing (adffgin).

Definitions for daffing

noun

  1. merriment; playful behavior; foolishness.
  2. Archaic. insanity.

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to turn or thrust aside.
  2. Obsolete. to doff.

verb (used without object)

  1. to make sport; dally; play.

Origin of daffing

First recorded in 1525-35; daff1 + -ing1

Examples for daffing

Auld Colley, wi his daffing, looks as he had a notion o the braw wissing o joy Charlie is to get.

I hae had mony a day's daffing wi' Jean's mither, and they say she bides on wi' them.

It was just daffing, I tell ye: daffing, and nae mair: a piece of fun, like!

One of our chief times of daffing was when he required a horse, another bottle, or some money.

It made no change in him; and it was in his old spirit of mockery and daffing that he began the interview.

Is there any reason to refrain from laughing and daffing while at that work?

This was the more characteristic, as, for all his daffing, he was a modest and very polite little fellow among ourselves.

To his humour of daffing I succumbed, and fell into an extraordinary ease with the world.

Miss Mary, she would be daffing with him on his return, with a 'How's her leddyship to-day, Dugald?'

Word Value for daffing
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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