daffish
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdæfɪʃ/
Adjective
daffish (comparative more daffish, superlative most daffish)
- (obsolete) Stupid, silly.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xlij, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:
- fayr frende said Morgan le fay ryde not after that knyght / for ye shalle not wynne no worship of hym / Fy on hym coward saide sire Hemyson / for I wyst neuer good knyghte come oute of Cornewaile / but yf hit were syr Tristram de Lyones / what & that be he said she / Nay nay said he / he is with la beale Isoud and this is but a daffyssh knyght
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xlij, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:
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