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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
deft/deft/
▶adjective quick and neatly skilful.
– derivatives
deftly adverb,
deftness noun.
– origin ME: var. of daft, in the obs. sense ‘meek’.



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