daisy

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈdeɪ.zi/(UK)
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/ˈdeɪ.zi/(UK) · /ˈdeɪzi/

Definition of daisy

9 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals
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noun

  1. A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals
  2. Any of numerous other flowering plants of various species, mostly among the asterids.
  3. (Cockney, slang)A boot or other footwear.
  4. (colloquial)Something splendid; a doozy.
    “Then Dan drew the sheath-knife and tested the edge of it on the gunwale. "That's a daisy," said Harvey. "How did you get it so cheap?"”
  5. A Girl Scout at the initial introductory level.

name

  1. A female given name from English.
    “Mrs. Fairfax kept always an eye upon him, and in spite of his familiarity with her, so restrained him in his intercourse with Margaret, that he could not for his life call her Daisy any more, though he had done so on the first day of their acquaintance.”
    “Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do! / I'm half crazy all for the love of you!”
    “She was a timid, sensitive girl, looking like her name - Daisy-ish industrious and thorough in her studies; - - -”
    “"Isn't she a Christian or something - a name which is..." "Nothing more than the name of a flower, that's all. Daisy is a flower." He realized he was not sure what flower it was. "It's a most lovely flower grown in America, England, and so forth. What is wrong with that name?"”
  2. A common name for a cow.
    “The heifer Daisy died in September 1811.”
  3. A surname.
  4. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Digital Accessible Information System, an XML-based open standard for people whose disability makes it difficult to read print.

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Etymology

From Middle English dayesye, from Old English dæġes ēage (“daisy”, literally “day's eye”) due to the flowers closing their blossoms during night. The rhyming slang comes from daisy roots for boots.

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