What does the word daft mean?

Usage examples for daft

  1. By this time the tent was in an uproar, for the chevalier's wife had come hurrying in, the chevalier's daughter was on the verge of hysterics, and the chevalier's prospective son- in- law, was alternately hugging the great beast- tamer and then shaking his hand and generally deporting himself like a respectable young man who had suddenly gone daft. – The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Various
  2. " It's a sorrowful thing- a whole respectable household gone daft about a couple of strange children;" he let the words drop very slowly. – The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. Crockett
  3. Art thou gone daft, sweetheart? – The Heart's Highway A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeeth Century by Mary E. Wilkins