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Definitions: DAFF |
DAFFIntransitive verb1. To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy. Noun1. A stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull. Transitive verb1. To daunt. 2. To cast aside; to put off; to doff. |
Date "DAFF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
Crosswords: DAFF |
| English words defined with "DAFF": Bedaff. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DAFF": Bedaff ♦ Deft. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DAFF": Leyland-daff. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
daff | 12 |
daff punk | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DAFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Gelbe Narzisse, Osterblume (daffodil). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | affday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rejeitar (cast off, condemn, confute, deny, disapprove, disavow, discard, discern, disclaim, get up the better, negative, overrule, pill, pip, put by, rebuff, rebut, refuse, reject, renounce, repel, reprobate, repudiate, repulse, throw out, turn down), fazer-se de tolo. (various references) | |
Spanish | narciso (Daffodil, daffodilly, narcissus), bromear (banter, deride, fool, fool around, fun, jape, jest, jive, joke, kid on, play, spoof). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DAFF": daffed, daffier, daffiest, daffily, daffing, daffodil, daffodils, daffs, daffy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-f" | |
-1 letter: aff, fad. | |
-2 letters: ad, fa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-f-f" | |
+1 letter: daffs, daffy, draff. | |
+2 letters: afford, baffed, daffed, draffs, draffy, gaffed, waffed, yaffed. | |
+3 letters: affined, affixed, affords, baffled, chaffed, daffier, daffily, daffing, distaff, effaced, fanfold, handoff, leadoff, offhand, offload, piaffed, quaffed, raffled, staffed, waffled. | |
+4 letters: affected, affirmed, afforded, affrayed, daffiest, daffodil, dandriff, dandruff, diffract, distaffs, draffier, draffish, fanfolds, guffawed, handcuff, handoffs, leadoffs, offguard, offloads, scaffold, sclaffed, snaffled, standoff, tariffed, tradeoff. | |
+5 letters: affianced, affidavit, afflicted, affording, affronted, buffaloed, chaffered, cofferdam, daffodils, dandriffs, dandruffs, dandruffy, diffracts, disaffect, disaffirm, draffiest, falsified, fancified, fanfolded, fieldfare, gauffered, handcuffs, mafficked, offhanded, offloaded, reaffixed, restaffed, scaffolds, standoffs, sufflated, tradeoffs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 46 46 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- ..-. ..-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000001 01000110 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A F F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 0046 0046 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38354040 |
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