daffy

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daffy

Crazy, goofy, or giddy. Quit being a so daffy—you're starting to annoy me. There's a guy on our corner who shouts about the end of the world; I think he's a little daffy.

daffy

(ˈdæfi)
mod. silly; crazy. Kelly was acting daffy because she was so happy.
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The willowy looker daffily defines Ruth as a gangly aspiring writer who's certain of her sharp wits but awkwardly unsure of her attractiveness to men; she's grown accustomed to becoming instantly invisible whenever her vivacious younger sister Eileen appears.
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Goldenhersh, who strongly recalls Barbara Harris, is quite daffily appealing as Loft, who grew up in a closet, fled an abusive marriage and quotes dreamily from "The Lord of the Rings." She's now docilely devoted to Seth, a budding Theodore Kaczynski who engages in constant, strange battles of machismo with dad.
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The consequent authentic pronunciation of the brief snatches of Spanish dialogue sometimes has the effect of making Rice's daffily imperialist Britishisms seem even more out of place than they did before, but this slick musical pastiche at least now has an aura of cultural authenticity.
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