(v. i.) To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy.
(v. t.) To daunt.
Example Sentences:
(1) This bomb hit Daff al-Shouk square, where families were celebrating Eid, on the southern outskirts of the capital.
Daffodil
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the genus Asphodelus.
(n.) A plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Pseudo-narcissus). It has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue. Called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were a small bunch of daffodils and now they're blooming.
(2) I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud set a new world record for mass recitation in 2004, when 250,000 school children across the UK read his poem inspired by the daffodils.
(3) They've sought fossils in Charmouth, learned to swim at Lulworth Cove, charged up Golden Cap and danced in the daffodils at the top of Colmers Hill.
(4) Wildflowers burst forth again in November, and in December there have been reports of daffodils budding and blooming in sheltered areas, while growers in south-west England are already harvesting brassicas like cauliflower which they would expect to mature in spring.
(5) A report this week about a strawberry grower’s fears over his seasonal workforce was yet more evidence that the corporation is giving too much airtime to “Bremoaners”, when readers of the Daily Mail and other newspapers know that a post-Brexit Britain will be all sunshine and daffodils.
(6) To one side of the house a large grassy bank, covered with daffodils at this time of year, sloped down to the lane.
(7) In the car park outside, busloads of oblivious Japanese and American tourists pulled in for their 20-minute tour of the Wordsworth residence and a visit to the gift shop to stock up on daffodil memorabilia.
(8) Around 50% of the trust's annual £1.4m budget is self-generated, coming from the daffodil mugs and tea towels as well as admission prices.
(9) She has posted a recipe on her husband's website and, campaigning with Mitt on St David's Day in Georgia, wore a dress detailed with daffodils and publicly delighted in a 'care package' of the griddle cakes, sent to her by her daughter-in-law, also of Welsh descent.
(10) The floral-emblem £1 coins, which began last year with a rose for England and a daffodil for Wales, will continue with the addition of coins featuring a thistle for Scotland and a flax plant for Northern Ireland.
(11) A personal favourite is Warkworth, best experienced when the Daffodils are in full bloom.
(12) In the last year I've been a sheep, a farmer, a daffodil, a schoolgirl and a Disney princess.
(13) The fields around the town of Spalding are as green and fertile as ever, the verges are smothered in daffodils and the vast sky that sits above it all is the treacherous blue-grey of the early English spring.
(14) On the other hand, all branched trisaccharides exhibited very similar inhibitory potencies toward the daffodil lectin (NPA)-D-mannan interaction, whereas alpha-D-Manp-(1----3)-[alpha-D-Galp-(1----6)]-alpha-D-ManpOMe++ + and alpha-D-Manp-(1----3)-[alpha-D-Manp-(1----6)]-alpha-D-Man pOMe were somewhat better inhibitors than the other branched trisaccharides of the amaryllis lectin (HHA)-D-mannan precipitation reaction.
(15) Daffodils and tulips and flowering trees.” Clinton isn’t running against a credible Democratic opponent.
(16) They trailed past a row of daffodils and through the dented metal door back into their school.
(17) I still had a job but found myself in a field of daffodils on the Sassoon Estate at Middlesex Trent Park where I made the best decision of my life, to get myself an education.
(18) The qualitative and quantitative distribution of carotenoids of the floral parts of three monocotyledons, the narcissus Scarlet Elegance, the daffodil King Alfred and the tulip Golden Harvest, were studied.
(19) Christine is showing off her mental arithmetic and that daffodil is trying to build its part up.
(20) Death "I had a letter from her about four days before she died in which she said she was going to compere a poetry reading at the Roundhouse , she'd been invited to be on The Critics, and she'd be back at Court Green 'in time for my daffodils'.