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daffing

/daf-ing/US // ˈdæf ɪŋ //

鲜花,鲜花店,鲜花的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Scot. and North England.

    • : merriment; playful behavior; foolishness.
    • : Archaic. insanity.

Examples

  • One of our chief times of daffing was when he required a horse, another bottle, or some money.

  • It made no change in him; and it was in his old spirit of mockery and daffing that he began the interview.

  • Miss Mary, she would be daffing with him on his return, with a 'How's her leddyship to-day, Dugald?'

  • Auld Colley, wi his daffing, looks as he had a notion o the braw wissing o joy Charlie is to get.

  • To his humour of daffing I succumbed, and fell into an extraordinary ease with the world.