different between daffy vs idiotic

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

• ?idiotick (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

idiot +? -ic

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d.i??t.?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d.i??t.?k/
• Hyphenation: id?i?ot?ic
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

idiotic (comparative more idiotic, superlative most idiotic)

1. (of a person or animal) Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; characterised with behaviour resembling idiocy.
2. (of an action) Having the quality of idiocy; very foolish

   Synonyms: stupid, nonsensical

Synonyms

• idiotish

Related terms

• idiocy
• idiot
• idiotically

Translations

References

• idiotic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• idiotic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.