different between daffy vs affy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?dæfi/
• Rhymes: -æfi

Etymology 1

From daff +? -y.

Adjective

daffy (comparative daffier, superlative daffiest)

1. (colloquial) Somewhat mad or eccentric.

   Synonyms: crazy, nutty, wacky

   • 1909, Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost, ch. 1

     "You've gone so plum daffy you are forgetting your dinner," jeered her mother.

   • 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O Russet Witch!, ch. 4

     He was daffy about her and she could twist him around her little finger.

Etymology 2

Noun

daffy (plural daffies)

1. (informal) A daffodil.

Etymology 3

An allusion to an old medicine known as Daffy's Elixir.

Noun

daffy (uncountable)

1. (Britain, slang, dated) Gin.
   • 1954, Denzil Batchelor, Big Fight: The Story of World Championship Boxing (page 44)

     […] he failed repeatedly until he took over his famous house in Haymarket, where for many years, surrounded by such admirers as Byron, Tom Moore and Hazlitt, he smoked his yard of clay, drained his glass of 'daffy', and […]

   • 1991, Julie Caille, Change of Heart (page 255)

     Within Castle Tavern, at Holborn, Charles Perth and Lord Lucan were drowning their disparate sorrows in a glass of daffy.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman afier, from Late Latin affidare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??fa?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

affy (third-person singular simple present affies, present participle affying, simple past and past participle affied)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To trust (in someone or something); to rely (on). [14th-17th c.]
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, First Folio 1623, I.1:

     Marcus Andronicus, so I do affie / In thy vprightnesse and Integrity […]

2. (obsolete, transitive) To promise to marry (someone); to be engaged to. [16th-17th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:

     He, though affide unto a former love, / To whom his faith he firmely ment to hold, / […] Her graunted love, but with affection cold […]

Etymology 2

Shortening of affidavit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æfi/
• Rhymes: -æfi

Noun

affy (plural affies)

1. (slang) An affidavit to be signed by a contest winner to confirm eligibility.
   • 1997, "Sandretto", Singapore Contest.... (on newsgroup alt.consumers.sweepstakes)

     If you have won a monthly prize, they will send you an affy and have you send it back. Then your prize comes from a courier.

   • 1999, "Suzy", Any BIG winners? (on newsgroup alt.consumers.sweepstakes)

     The contest ended in mid November, I got the affy Christmas eve, and I picked up the car February 4th or 5th.