daffynition
nounEtymology
Blend of daffy (“mad; eccentric”) + definition.
- derived from dēfīnītiō
- derived from definition
- inherited from diffinicioun
Definitions
A form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it…
A form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word or phrase.
- Daffynitions appear in fictionaries, not dictionaries, and they add hidden dimensions to the words they describe.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for daffynition. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA