daffinglyadv.
/ˈdafɪŋli/ Sportively.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [adverb]
trenchmore1577
frolicly1592
ahoit1598
hoity-toity1734
rollickingly1842
friskily1862
tricksily1866
frolicsomely1874
prankishly1883
larkingly1896
daffingly1902
1902 D. S. Meldrum Conquest of Charlotte iii. xix ‘Ah! he's married: that's crucial,’ I said, daffingly.
1907 J. H. McCarthy Needles & Pins xx ‘I should have taken a great fancy to you,’ he answered daffingly, ‘if I had been a free man when we met.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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