dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/daf_MW.json

{
  "daffy":{
    "antonyms":[
      "balanced",
      "compos mentis",
      "sane",
      "sound",
      "uncrazy"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": crazy , foolish":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The actress is starring in a daffy new comedy this summer.",
      "The book is filled with daffy characters.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The songs on the album are tamped down and less flamboyantly daffy than his previous ones, presumably in performance of a gritty authenticity. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 9 June 2022",
      "The routine was a little bit daffy \u2014 a wuxia grandmaster with a hint of Lucille Ball. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
      "For Hollywood oomph, Uma Thurman subbed in as the Swedish secretary, and Will Ferrell played a daffy ex-Nazi. \u2014 Mara Reinstein, Vulture , 9 Dec. 2021",
      "But to a degree, the charmingly daffy anachronistic dialogue compensates for a plot that feels like a fait accompli. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Nov. 2021",
      "In For Your Consideration, from 2006, Coolidge is a daffy film producer. \u2014 E. Alex Jung, Vulture , 7 July 2021",
      "More than once, Barbarisi must find a diplomatic way to let Beep know how daffy his latest take on a Fennian ambiguity appears to an outsider. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 May 2021",
      "The humor is not as daffy as in Edward Lear, and not as elaborate as in Lewis Carroll. \u2014 Joan Acocella, The New Yorker , 7 Dec. 2020",
      "Biden\u2019s daffy proposal to rely on wind and solar power would gut our economy and make our energy supply weather-dependent. \u2014 Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner , 24 Oct. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1884, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "obsolete English daff , noun, fool":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8da-f\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "balmy",
      "barmy",
      "bats",
      "batty",
      "bedlam",
      "bonkers",
      "brainsick",
      "bughouse",
      "certifiable",
      "crackbrained",
      "cracked",
      "crackers",
      "crackpot",
      "cranky",
      "crazed",
      "crazy",
      "cuckoo",
      "daft",
      "demented",
      "deranged",
      "fruity",
      "gaga",
      "haywire",
      "insane",
      "kooky",
      "kookie",
      "loco",
      "loony",
      "looney",
      "loony tunes",
      "looney tunes",
      "lunatic",
      "mad",
      "maniacal",
      "maniac",
      "mental",
      "meshuga",
      "meshugge",
      "meshugah",
      "meshuggah",
      "moonstruck",
      "non compos mentis",
      "nuts",
      "nutty",
      "psycho",
      "psychotic",
      "scatty",
      "screwy",
      "unbalanced",
      "unhinged",
      "unsound",
      "wacko",
      "whacko",
      "wacky",
      "whacky",
      "wud"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025848",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "daft":{
    "antonyms":[
      "balanced",
      "compos mentis",
      "sane",
      "sound",
      "uncrazy"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": frivolously merry":[],
      ": mad , insane":[
        "\u2026 he looks at me as if I were daft .",
        "\u2014 Johanna McGeary"
      ],
      ": silly , foolish":[
        "Don't do anything daft ."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Your idea seems a bit daft to me.",
      "She looked at us as if we'd gone daft .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But unlike the first film, Sonic 2 has a daft sense of fun that feels totally self-assured, a proper blend of kid-friendly gags and deeply dorky world building, complete with post-credit sequences and ever-expanding lore. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "Someday soon \u2014 maybe in a year, maybe at the next Olympic trials \u2014 Americans will look back at last week's events and ask how any organization could have been so daft , so anachronistic, so wrongheaded. \u2014 Jim Souhan, Star Tribune , 4 July 2021",
      "Does this praise even track for a generation raised on politicians who make hay exploiting daft cultural skirmishes",
      "The internet has accelerated the spread of absurd theories, but these are a continuation of the sort of daft rumors that have always circulated in human communities. \u2014 New York Times , 5 May 2020",
      "Nevertheless, emotion resonates through this delightful memoir, which offers a candid, humorous look inside the royal family and the daft world of the British aristocracy. \u2014 Moira Hodgson, WSJ , 24 Mar. 2020",
      "Which, of course, sounds daft since voters headed to the polls last Tuesday or headed to their mailboxes at some point to send in their absentee ballots. \u2014 Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 12 Apr. 2020",
      "Yet just as Shoplifters conceded that its low-class antiheroes were actually horrible people, Parasite is fairly kind to the upper crust, portraying the rich as sweet if slightly daft people. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 3 Oct. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English daffte, daft, defte \"well-mannered, gentle, dull, foolish,\" going back to Old English ged\u00e6fte \"gentle, mild, meek,\" adjective derivative of a Germanic base *da\u0180- \"becoming, fit\" (whence also Old English gedafen \"appropriate, fitting,\" Gothic gadaban \"to happen, be suitable,\" with lengthened grade Old English ged\u0113fe \"fitting, worthy, quiet, tranquil,\" Middle Dutch onghedoef \"wild, rough,\" Gothic gadob ist \"it is fitting\"), going back to dialectal Indo-European *d h ab h - or *d h ob h -, whence also Old Church Slavic podobati \"to become, be fitting,\" dobr\u016d \"good, pleasant,\" Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian d\u00f4ba, d\u020dba \"time, season,\" Lithuanian dab\u00e0 \"nature, character,\" dabn\u00f9s \"well-dressed, elegant\"":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8daft",
      "also \u02c8d\u00e4ft"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "balmy",
      "barmy",
      "bats",
      "batty",
      "bedlam",
      "bonkers",
      "brainsick",
      "bughouse",
      "certifiable",
      "crackbrained",
      "cracked",
      "crackers",
      "crackpot",
      "cranky",
      "crazed",
      "crazy",
      "cuckoo",
      "daffy",
      "demented",
      "deranged",
      "fruity",
      "gaga",
      "haywire",
      "insane",
      "kooky",
      "kookie",
      "loco",
      "loony",
      "looney",
      "loony tunes",
      "looney tunes",
      "lunatic",
      "mad",
      "maniacal",
      "maniac",
      "mental",
      "meshuga",
      "meshugge",
      "meshugah",
      "meshuggah",
      "moonstruck",
      "non compos mentis",
      "nuts",
      "nutty",
      "psycho",
      "psychotic",
      "scatty",
      "screwy",
      "unbalanced",
      "unhinged",
      "unsound",
      "wacko",
      "whacko",
      "wacky",
      "whacky",
      "wud"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070443",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "daftness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "balanced",
      "compos mentis",
      "sane",
      "sound",
      "uncrazy"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": frivolously merry":[],
      ": mad , insane":[
        "\u2026 he looks at me as if I were daft .",
        "\u2014 Johanna McGeary"
      ],
      ": silly , foolish":[
        "Don't do anything daft ."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Your idea seems a bit daft to me.",
      "She looked at us as if we'd gone daft .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But unlike the first film, Sonic 2 has a daft sense of fun that feels totally self-assured, a proper blend of kid-friendly gags and deeply dorky world building, complete with post-credit sequences and ever-expanding lore. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "Someday soon \u2014 maybe in a year, maybe at the next Olympic trials \u2014 Americans will look back at last week's events and ask how any organization could have been so daft , so anachronistic, so wrongheaded. \u2014 Jim Souhan, Star Tribune , 4 July 2021",
      "Does this praise even track for a generation raised on politicians who make hay exploiting daft cultural skirmishes",
      "The internet has accelerated the spread of absurd theories, but these are a continuation of the sort of daft rumors that have always circulated in human communities. \u2014 New York Times , 5 May 2020",
      "Nevertheless, emotion resonates through this delightful memoir, which offers a candid, humorous look inside the royal family and the daft world of the British aristocracy. \u2014 Moira Hodgson, WSJ , 24 Mar. 2020",
      "Which, of course, sounds daft since voters headed to the polls last Tuesday or headed to their mailboxes at some point to send in their absentee ballots. \u2014 Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 12 Apr. 2020",
      "Yet just as Shoplifters conceded that its low-class antiheroes were actually horrible people, Parasite is fairly kind to the upper crust, portraying the rich as sweet if slightly daft people. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 3 Oct. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English daffte, daft, defte \"well-mannered, gentle, dull, foolish,\" going back to Old English ged\u00e6fte \"gentle, mild, meek,\" adjective derivative of a Germanic base *da\u0180- \"becoming, fit\" (whence also Old English gedafen \"appropriate, fitting,\" Gothic gadaban \"to happen, be suitable,\" with lengthened grade Old English ged\u0113fe \"fitting, worthy, quiet, tranquil,\" Middle Dutch onghedoef \"wild, rough,\" Gothic gadob ist \"it is fitting\"), going back to dialectal Indo-European *d h ab h - or *d h ob h -, whence also Old Church Slavic podobati \"to become, be fitting,\" dobr\u016d \"good, pleasant,\" Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian d\u00f4ba, d\u020dba \"time, season,\" Lithuanian dab\u00e0 \"nature, character,\" dabn\u00f9s \"well-dressed, elegant\"":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8daft",
      "also \u02c8d\u00e4ft"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "balmy",
      "barmy",
      "bats",
      "batty",
      "bedlam",
      "bonkers",
      "brainsick",
      "bughouse",
      "certifiable",
      "crackbrained",
      "cracked",
      "crackers",
      "crackpot",
      "cranky",
      "crazed",
      "crazy",
      "cuckoo",
      "daffy",
      "demented",
      "deranged",
      "fruity",
      "gaga",
      "haywire",
      "insane",
      "kooky",
      "kookie",
      "loco",
      "loony",
      "looney",
      "loony tunes",
      "looney tunes",
      "lunatic",
      "mad",
      "maniacal",
      "maniac",
      "mental",
      "meshuga",
      "meshugge",
      "meshugah",
      "meshuggah",
      "moonstruck",
      "non compos mentis",
      "nuts",
      "nutty",
      "psycho",
      "psychotic",
      "scatty",
      "screwy",
      "unbalanced",
      "unhinged",
      "unsound",
      "wacko",
      "whacko",
      "wacky",
      "whacky",
      "wud"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014423",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "daffodil":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8da-f\u0259-\u02ccdil"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Simple accessories, like Marion Parke's daffodil yellow heels or Manu Atelier's supple leather bag, are a thoughtful finishing touch that can live in your wardrobe for seasons to come. \u2014 Talia Abbas, Glamour , 7 June 2022",
      "To attend the ceremony itself, Queen Bey chose a daffodil -yellow gown with a sweetheart neckline, which included a sweeping off-the-shoulder taffeta cape and matching gloves. \u2014 Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR , 5 June 2022",
      "Specifically, notes of smoke, tomato and burger should remind people of the ShackBurger while scents of daffodil , oakwood and moss are reminiscent of spring at Madison Square Park. \u2014 Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE.com , 12 May 2022",
      "Rosabel swimsuit \u2014 in a summery daffodil plaid seersucker fabric \u2014 looks at home on the beach and poolside picnics. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Stepping on daffodil foliage will not cause any lasting damage, but avoid early spring bulbs that are flowering or in bud. \u2014 Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com , 9 Apr. 2022",
      "Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast, looking like a fabulous daffodil in short ruffled yellow Valentino. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "Beyonc\u00e9 opted for a floor-length gown with a sweetheart neckline in a daffodil shade of yellow. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "For their next stop at Abergavenny Market, Kate swapped out her scarf and a casual jacket for a long green coat adorned with a daffodil , the national flower of Wales. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 1 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps from Dutch de affodil the asphodel":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1548, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193252"
  },
  "daffodil garlic":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a European onion ( Allium neapolitanum ) with white flowers":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193753"
  },
  "daffodil lily":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": atamasco lily":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003521"
  },
  "daffadilly":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": daffodil":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-li",
      "\u00a6daf\u0259\u00a6dil\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "daffadilly, daffodilly alteration (influenced by lily ) of daffodil; daffadowndilly, daffodowndilly alteration of daffadilly, daffodilly":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-123738"
  }
}