different between daffy vs dopey

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

Alternative forms

• dopy

Etymology

From dope (“stupid person”) +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??pi/
• Rhymes: -??pi

Adjective

dopey (comparative more dopey, superlative most dopey)

1. Stupid, silly.
   • 2010, Nicky Haslam, Redeeming Features (page 211)

     We were all convinced there was a poltergeist in David's flat and had the dopey idea of taking it as a present to Jimmy. We “captured'” the ghost in a paper bag […]

Derived terms

• dopiness