What's the difference between daft and laft?

Daft


Definition:

  • (a.) Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft.
  • (a.) Gay; playful; frolicsome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Does he really think, like those daft gender essentialists, that women are innately gentle and men are big brutes out for a ruck?
  • (2) I am of a similar vintage and, like many friends and fans of the series, bemoan the fact that we are generally treated by society as silly, weak, daft, soppy, prejudiced (even bigoted), risk-averse and wary of new situations.
  • (3) Album of the year: Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Daft Punk snatches record of the year from Macklemore's tiny fists.
  • (4) Osborne and Alistair Darling would be daft to rule out a 20% VAT band; don't expect them to admit as much this side of polling day.
  • (5) • Sign up for our Money Talks email , which each week features a daft deal and some real offers
  • (6) The comedian Stephen Mangan called Cameron’s warning “panicky” and “daft”, while another comedian, Vikki Stone, shared a picture of herself hiding in the shed with a colander on her head and said: “Dear David Cameron I’m frightened.
  • (7) Daft Punk will make their first televised performance since 2008 , playing with artists including Stevie Wonder and Get Lucky collaborators Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.
  • (8) It would be unfair – daft, even, and demeaning to the winner – to suggest Murray threw the match away after coming back from 2-5 in the fifth set and failing to convert any of three break points that would have left him serving for the match.
  • (9) I wanted to make something that, daft as it is, you could see it loads of times and spot something new each time.
  • (10) The clue is in the title: it takes a lot of work and rehearsal for a comedian to appear spontaneous, and this is a daft, enjoyable and impressively polished show from a comic with a natural flair for the absurd.
  • (11) Nile says: “The robots had an amazing vision!” Nile Rodgers accepts Daft Punk's International Group Award.
  • (12) So, yes, Daft Punk are very famous indeed, but the two Frenchmen sitting side by side on a sofa in a luxurious Paris hotel suite – Thomas Bangalter, 38, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 39 – are very much not.
  • (13) He also helpfully presented the former prime minister with a way the policy could be made less daft.
  • (14) The more that other people sounded like Daft Punk, the harder it become for Daft Punk to do something new.
  • (15) Frankly, if anyone is daft enough to spend £1,000 on a handbag, it’s no skin off anyone else’s nose.
  • (16) At this perilous juncture, there's not much to be gained from saying that monetary union was always a daft idea.
  • (17) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
  • (18) Richard Curtis's film is a good-natured fantasy romance of such utterable daftness that it's impossible to dislike.
  • (19) Cycling into the hinterland of a foreign city with a reputation for violence and where few people speak English might sound like a daft idea, but for anyone remotely interested in cycling this is an unmissable experience – perhaps the world's greatest city bike ride.
  • (20) So, let's go back to the original question: is the man in charge of making these changes a bit daft?

Laft


Definition:

  • () p. p. of Leave.

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