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daft laddie question en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland) A question posed to a group by a person feigning stupidity with the aim of making sure all aspects of a subject have been considered.
    • I'm not immersed in Junior football history, and though I've grown to love it over the years I feel I'm missing a lot of stuff that everyone just seems to know. So I thought the off season was a good time to ask my daft laddie questions. -- Forum post 17/06/2017

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Coordinates

daft lassie question · devil's advocate

Relateds

Socratic irony