Lexicographical Neighbors of Daftie
Literary usage of Daftie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1896)
"... who described Saunderson freely as a " daftie" to Mains' grandson, did not
see clearly for a week, and never recovered his lost front tooth. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"daftie (tailors), one who says (or does) anything absurd. Dagger-cheap (old),
dirt cheap. "The Dagger was a low ordinary in Holborn, referred to by Ben ..."
3. Mental Deficiency (amentia) by Alfred Frank Tredgold (1922)
"On the whole, the bodily condition is so distinctive that even the casual observer
has little difficulty in dubbing one of this class a " daftie "or" ..."
4. The "Flower of Gloster," by Ernest Temple Thurston (1911)
"What's more, they'd think you was daftie if you said them birds weren't made to
sing in cages, and had no more taste for it than you and I would have for a ..."
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