Hypertext Webster Gateway: "daft"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Daft \Daft\ (d[.a]ft), a. [OE. daft, deft, deft, stupid; prob.
the same word as E. deft. See {Deft}.]
1. Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he
has gone daft.

Let us think no more of this daft business --Sir W.
Scott.

2. Gay; playful; frolicsome. [Scot.] --Jamieson.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

daft
adj : informal or slang terms for mentally irregular [syn: {balmy},
{barmy}, {bats}, {batty}, {bonkers}, {buggy}, {cracked},
{crackers}, {dotty}, {fruity}, {haywire}, {kooky}, {kookie},
{loco}, {loony}, {loopy}, {nuts}, {nutty}, {wacky}]


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