daffyadjective
uk/ˈdæf.i/us/ˈdæf.i/informalstrange or unusual, sometimes in a humorous way
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Stupid and silly
- (as) thick as two short planks idiom
- absurd
- adolescent
- against your better judgment idiom
- asinine
- be crazy about sb/sth idiom
- certifiable
- dozy
- drink, laugh, etc. yourself silly idiom
- drivel
- dumb
- empty-headed
- gibber
- loony
- loopy
- lumpen
- lumpish
- madcap
- slow
- wrongheaded
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Examples from literature
- But if I did so now, you'd take me out to your rickety old house, with your daffy old uncle and his dumb old housekeeper, and I should lose my own mind in a week or ten days.
- He is the happy and enthusiastic pastor of a large and growing congregation, which congregation is simply "daffy" about him.
- I'd rather have them than a rope of pearls and I'm just daffy over those things.
- She laughed and said, 'Dan, you are getting daffy.' From that night on I have been a better husband and father.
- Well, once upon a time, Uncle Bill was clear daffy on the subject of mosquitoes.