daft
silly, stupid
TRANSLATION
daemlich, doof
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"My wife was sharing a hospital room with a sophisticated grande dame," actor Donald Marks once recalled. "Her first evening there, a small bowl with a single rose floating on top was brought to the lady. My wife watched in wide-eyed astonishment as her roommate plucked out the flower and began sipping the water.
"'You shouldn't do that,' she said, thinking the woman was a bit DAFT.
"The woman chuckled and said, 'How else could my husband send me my daily martini?'"
"'You shouldn't do that,' she said, thinking the woman was a bit DAFT.
"The woman chuckled and said, 'How else could my husband send me my daily martini?'"
Did you
know?
daft
Means mad, crazy; or foolish, stupid.
From the Middle English dafte: foolish
There must be a lot of daftness about - check out all these synonyms:
absurd, asinine, baked, bedlamite, bonkers, cracked, crackers, crazy, daffy, DAFT, demented, deranged, dopey, flaky, foolish, fried, giddy, harebrained, idiotic, inane, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, mental, mentally incompetent, moronic, nuts, nutty, ridiculous, potty, preposterous, screwy, silly, simple, stupid, totally baked, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacky, whacko, witless
Example from the press:
Mike O'Brien, Home Office minister said: "This ban is antiquated and should have gone years ago. It is plainly DAFT to have a ban on dancing simply because it is a Sunday."
(The Daily Telegraph - 18th January 2000)
Means mad, crazy; or foolish, stupid.
From the Middle English dafte: foolish
There must be a lot of daftness about - check out all these synonyms:
absurd, asinine, baked, bedlamite, bonkers, cracked, crackers, crazy, daffy, DAFT, demented, deranged, dopey, flaky, foolish, fried, giddy, harebrained, idiotic, inane, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, mental, mentally incompetent, moronic, nuts, nutty, ridiculous, potty, preposterous, screwy, silly, simple, stupid, totally baked, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacky, whacko, witless
Example from the press:
Mike O'Brien, Home Office minister said: "This ban is antiquated and should have gone years ago. It is plainly DAFT to have a ban on dancing simply because it is a Sunday."
(The Daily Telegraph - 18th January 2000)
