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daisy

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noun, plural dai·sies.

any of various composite plants the flowers of which have a yellow disk and white rays, as the English daisy and the oxeye daisy.
Also called daisy ham. a small section of pork shoulder, usually smoked, boned, and weighing from two to four pounds.Compare picnic(def 3).
Slang. someone or something of first-rate quality: That new car is a daisy.
a cheddar cheese of cylindrical shape, weighing about 20 pounds.

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Idioms

    push up daisies, Informal. to be dead and buried.

Origin of daisy

before 1000; Middle English dayesye, Old English dægesēge the day's eye
Related formsdai·sied, adjective
Can be confuseddais daisy days

Daisy

[dey-zee]

noun

a female given name.
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Contemporary Examples of daisy

Historical Examples of daisy

  • I went over to where Daisy stood, by the edge of the flower-bed.

    In the Valley

    Harold Frederic

  • But by this time Jasmine had torn the envelope open, and was oblivious to all Daisy's comments.

  • Daisy was, perhaps, in all particulars younger than her years.

  • It was Anne's foolish speech to Daisy, saying she would kill her, that gave him the idea.

  • Stone started it again with a cracking two-bagger, and, when Eliot poked a daisy cutter into right, Ben scored on it.

British Dictionary definitions for daisy

daisy

noun plural -sies

a small low-growing European plant, Bellis perennis, having a rosette of leaves and flower heads of yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
Also called: oxeye daisy, marguerite, moon daisy a Eurasian composite plant, Leucanthemum vulgare having flower heads with a yellow centre and white outer rays
any of various other composite plants having conspicuous ray flowers, such as the Michaelmas daisy and Shasta daisy
slang an excellent person or thing
pushing up the daisies dead and buried
Derived Formsdaisied, adjective

Word Origin for daisy

Old English dægesēge day's eye
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for daisy
n.

Old English dægesege, from dæges eage "day's eye," because the petals open at dawn and close at dusk. (See day (n.) + eye (n.)). In Medieval Latin it was solis oculus "sun's eye." As a female proper name said to have been originally a pet form of Margaret (q.v.).

Daisy-cutter first attested 1791, originally of horses that trot with low steps; later of cricket (1889) and baseball hits that skim along the ground. Daisy-chain in the "group sex" sense is attested from 1941. Pushing up daisies "dead" is attested from 1918, but variants with the same meaning go back to 1842.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Idioms and Phrases with daisy

daisy

In addition to the idiom beginning with daisy

  • daisy chain

also see:

  • fresh as a daisy
  • push up daisies
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.