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Re: QUESTION
I suspect not, but that probably also has something to do with the fact that there's no obvious full name Goofy might be short for. Daffy may mean silly or crazy, but there's no denying that it at least sounds like a nn for Daphne, or might even be the way a little kid would mispronounce Daphne."It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
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Yes, but my point was that even though Daffy is intuitive as a nickname for Daphne, because it, like Goofy, has a negative connotation as a description of a person, it should be avoided.Daphne itself is too close to the word "daffy" for me to like it.
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