daften

present singular third person daftens · participle present daftening · participle past daftened · past daftened · alternative Northern England daffen · alternative Northern England daffin

1. ScotlandambitransitiverareTo make or become daft.

   He daffened it, afooar he killed it.

   1899, Nicholson, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

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   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