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daften en · VERB

Etymology

From daft + -en.

Meanings

1. (Scotland, ambitransitive, rare) To make or become daft.
   • Ye came here to daften my lass Peggy again, so ye thought. 1909, Halliwell Sutcliffe, Priscilla of the Good Intent, page 57:
   • 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. 1913, The Windsor Magazine, volume 37, page 97:
   • He daffened it, afooar he killed it. 1899, Nicholson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

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