daffed

English

Verb

daffed

1. simple past and past participle of daff

Yola

Verb

daffed

1. Alternative form of doft
   • 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 3-5:

     Hea daffed his cooat, pidh it an a bushe, an begaan to peale a cooat, an zide,

     He took off his coat, put it on a bush, and began to beat the coat, and said,

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 110