daffing

noun

daffing

noun

Etymology From daff + -ing.

1

Scotland, Usually Fun; merrymaking.

Willy, Willy Wilkin, Kissed the maids a-milking, Fa, la, la! And with his merry daffing, He set them all a laughing. Ha, ha, ha!1886, James Orchard Halliwell, “Fourteenth Class: Love and Matrimony: CCCCXLI”, in The Nursery Rhymes of England:

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