daffadowndilly
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of daffadowndilly
First recorded in 1565–75; by alteration
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Diaphenia like the daffadowndilly, White as the sun, fair as the lily, Heigh ho, how do I love thee!
From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Palgrave, Francis Turner
The playful elaboration daffadowndilly is as old as Spenser.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
Diaphenia like the daffadowndilly, White as the sun, fair as the lily, Heigh ho, how I do love thee!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
The yellow daffadowndillies have burst into bloom, and the tiny cupped flowers of crocuses are spreading their pied blankets of white and purple.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
Soon the pointed shoots of the playful daffadowndillies will break the frozen ground.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
Clem thrawed them, an’ they floated away to the sea, past daffadowndillies an’ budding lady-ferns an’ such-like.
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
They were all clad in fine long white albs, with two girts; their hair interwoven with narrow tape and purple ribbon, stuck with roses, gillyflowers, marjoram, daffadowndillies, thyme, and other sweet flowers.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
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