dafter

1. 1
   sillieradjective

   Comparative of daft.

   Each new rule the council comes up with is dafter than the last.

   My dog gets dafter as he gets older; yesterday he barked at his own reflection.

   Note

   The short adjective daft simply takes -er, and the comparative keeps daft's colloquial British and Australian flavor. It can grade either kind of daftness: sillier, as in each rule dafter than the last, or further from one's right mind. Three unrelated words share these letters, though: an old spelling of daughter and a word for an Indian register are nouns with histories of their own.

2. 2
   daughternounobsolete

   Obsolete spelling of daughter.

   Note

   Only older writing uses this spelling; anyone writing today spells the word daughter. A reader who meets it in an old letter or record can simply read daughter, with any of that word's senses, from a female child to a female descendant at any remove.

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