Meaning & use
daffy
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Silly, foolish, or slightly crazy in a harmless, amusing way.
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He came up with a daffy scheme to train his cat to fetch the newspaper.
Her daffy sense of humor always lightens the mood at meetings.
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Informal and usually affectionate, not cruel; predates and is unrelated in origin to the cartoon character Daffy Duck, though the character's name plays on the word.
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