daften

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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verb

"He daffened it, afooar he killed it."
"Ye came here to daften my lass Peggy again, so ye thought."
"Oh, daftened wi' the moonshine they call love. I caught it myself when I was a lad, but, thanks be, a man grows out of it, and gets about again, attending to his crops."

From daft + -en.

daftens (present, singular) daftening (participle, present) daftened (participle, past) daftened (past) daffen (alternative, Northern England) daffin (alternative, Northern England)

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