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Is daff a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word daff is a Scrabble US word. The word daff is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is daff a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word daff is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

DAFF,

3-letter words (2 found)

AFF,FAD,

2-letter words (3 found)

AD,DA,FA,

You can make 6 words from daff according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of daff

daff adff dfaf fdaf afdf fadf daff adff dfaf fdaf afdf fadf dffa fdfa dffa fdfa ffda ffda affd fafd affd fafd ffad ffad

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word daff. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in daff.

Definitions and meaning of daff

daff

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dæf/
  • Rhymes: -æf

Etymology 1

From Middle English daf, daffe (“fool, idiot”), from Old Norse daufr (“deaf, stupid”), from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (“deaf, stunned”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, whirl, smoke, be obscure”). Doublet of dowf and dof. Cognate with Swedish döv (“deaf”), Danish døv (“deaf, stupid”). More at deaf.

Noun

daff (plural daffs)

  1. A fool; an idiot; a blockhead.
Derived terms
  • bedaff
  • daffish
  • daffock
  • daffy

Etymology 2

From Middle English daffen (“to render foolish”), from daf, daffe (“fool, idiot”). See above.

Verb

daff (third-person singular simple present daffs, present participle daffing, simple past and past participle daffed)

  1. (intransitive, Scotland) To be foolish; make sport; play; toy.
  2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To daunt.
Derived terms
  • daffing
  • daffle

Etymology 3

Variant of doff.

Verb

daff (third-person singular simple present daffs, present participle daffing, simple past and past participle daffed)

  1. (transitive) To toss (aside); to dismiss.
  2. (transitive) To turn (someone) aside; divert.

Etymology 4

From daffodil.

Noun

daff (plural daffs)

  1. (British, informal) Clipping of daffodil.

Etymology 5

Noun

daff (plural daffs)

  1. Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”)

Etymology 6

Noun

daff (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A preparation of gypsum once used to adulterate food products.

Anagrams

  • aff'd

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

daff (neuter singular daft, definite singular and plural daffe, comparative daffare, indefinite superlative daffast, definite superlative daffaste)

  1. energyless (about somebody)

Yola

Verb

daff

  1. Alternative form of doff

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 35

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