daisyn.
/ˈdeɪzi/, U.S. /ˈdeɪzi/ 1.
a. The common name of Bellis perennis, family Compositæ, a familiar and favourite flower of the British Isles and Europe generally, having small flat flower-heads with yellow disk and white ray (often tinged with pink), which close in the evening; it grows abundantly on grassy hills, in meadows, by roadsides, etc., and blossoms nearly all the year round; many varieties are cultivated in gardens.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > daisy
daisyc1000
bruisewortOE
primerolea1350
Margaretc1425
gowan1570
primrose1579
marguerite1605
bruise root1698
dog daisy1821
ewe-flower1825
marguerite1847
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 135/22 Consolda, dægesege.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 292 gearwe, and fif~leafe, dægesege, and synnfulle.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 43 Dayeseȝes in þis dales.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 43 Of al the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men called daysyes.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 184 Wele by reson men it calle may The dayeseye, or ellis the eye of day.
c1450 Crt. of Love xv Depeinted wonderly, With many a thousand daisies, rede as rose, And white also.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. June 6 The grassye ground with daintye Daysies dight.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 879 Dasies pied, and Violets blew.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 267 For March, There come Violets..The Yellow Daffadill; The Dazie.
1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 218. ⁋9 Visits to a Spot of Daizies, or a Bank of Violets.
1803 J. Leyden Scenes of Infancy i. 291 When evening brings the merry folding hours, And sun-eyed daisies close their winking flowers.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xvi. 281 She was as fresh as a daisy.
1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 81 There are Quilled, Double, and Proliferous or Hen-and-Chicken Daisies.
b. Cf. daisy-cutter n. 1.
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1852 W. Irving Let. 15 July (1982) IV. 315 My horse, now and then cuts daisies with me when I am on his back.
c. Slang phrases: under the daisies, dead and buried; to push up daisies, to turn one's toes up to the daisies, to be in one's grave, to be dead.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dead
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restOE
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to be deadc1000
to lie lowa1275
layc1300
to be gathered to one's fathersa1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
to sup with our Saviour, with Our (the) Lord, with (Jesus) Christa1400
repose1586
slumber1594
to sup in heaven or hell1642
to turn one's toes up to the daisies1842
to be out of the way1881
to push up daisiesa1918
to have had it1942
RIP1962
the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective]
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of lifeOE
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(as) dead as mutton1792
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translated1869
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(as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904
six feet under1942
brown bread1969
1842 R. H. Barham Babes in Wood in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 188 Be kind to those dear little folks When our toes are turned up to the daisies.
1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. I. xi. 356 I shall very soon hide [my name] under some daisies.
a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 65 ‘Pushing up daisies’ is their creed, you know.
1928 S. Vines Humours Unreconciled xxi. 268 I think she's drinking herself under the daisies, so to speak.
1938 G. Heyer Blunt Instrument xiii. 252 ‘Where is the wife now?’.. ‘Pushing up daisies... Died..a couple of years ago.’
1961 S. Chaplin Day of Sardine xiii. 245 Everybody goes to hell their own way and by the time you're privileged to be able to help a lost soul he'll be pushin' up daisies.
1970 Guardian 30 Dec. 9/6 In ten years time I think I should be pushing up daisies.
2. Applied to other plants with similar flowers or growing in similar situations.
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a. simply. In North America, the Ox-eye Daisy, Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum (see 2b); in Australia, various Compositæ, esp. Vitadenia and Brachycome iberidifolia; in New Zealand, the genus Lagenophora.
b. With qualifications, as African daisy n. Athanasia annua. blue daisy n. (a) the Sea Starwort; (b) the genus Globularia. bull daisy n. = ox-eye daisy n. at ox-eye n. Compounds. butter daisy n. locally applied to the Buttercup, and to the Ox-eye Daisy. Christmas daisy n. several species of Aster, esp. A. grandiflorus. dog daisy n. = ox-eye daisy n. at ox-eye n. Compounds. great daisy n. horse daisy n. = ox-eye daisy n. at ox-eye n. Compounds. sea daisy n. Thrift, Armeria maritima. (See Treasury Bot., and Britten & Holland Eng. Plant-names)See also globe-daisy n. at globe n. Compounds 2, marsh daisy n. at marsh n.1 Compounds 3c, Michaelmas daisy n. at Michaelmas n. Compounds 2, midsummer daisy n. at midsummer n. Compounds 2, moon daisy n. at moon n.1 Compounds 2, ox-eye daisy n. at ox-eye n. Compounds.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > chrysanthemums
goldOE
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pyrethrum1837
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maudlin daisy1855
moon daisy1855
pompom1861
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crown daisy1875
Korean chrysanthemum1877
Paris daisy1882
mum1891
Shasta daisy1901
chrysanth1920
penny-daisy1920
Korean1938
Nippon daisy1939
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 16 Consolida media, grete dayeseghe.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xix. 169 There be two kindes of Daysies, the great and the small.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xxxiii. 364 Some call it blew Camomil or blew Dasies.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvi. 398 The Ox-eye Daisy, a plant common among standing grass in meadows.
1838 W. Scrope Art Deer-stalking 388 Even the highest hills..are scattered over with the sea daisy and other plants.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 286 (Sea-Starwort)..Country people call it Blue Daisy.
3. A species of sea-anemone ( Actinia bellis).
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1859 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. Index.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent thing
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lollapalooza1904
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Rolls-Royce1916
the nuts1917
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sweetheart1942
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c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 515 A dere dewchesse, my daysyys Iee!
a1605 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems (1887) xxxix. 1 Adeu, O desie of delyt.
5. slang. (chiefly U.S.). A first-rate thing or person; also as adj. First-rate, charming.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective]
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing
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1757 S. Foote Author ii. 28 Oh daisy! that's charming.
1886 F. H. Burnett Little Ld. Fauntleroy (1887) xv. 263 ‘She's the daisiest gal I ever saw! She's —well she's just a daisy, that's what she is.’
1888 Denver Republican May (Farmer) Beyond compare a pugilistic daisy.
1889 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 22 Mar. 2/3 In a new book upon ‘Americanisms,’ some of the less familiar are..daisy, for anything first-rate.
6.
a. Resembling a daisy.
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a1605 A. Montgomerie Well of Love 41 Hir deasie colour, rid and vhyte.
1611 W. Barksted Hiren sig. B I sweare by this diuine white daizy-hand.
1854 C. Patmore Betrothal ii, in Angel in House I. 40 She Whose daisy eyes had learned to droop.
b. U.S. slang. (See sense 5.) Also as adv.
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1886 [see sense 5].
1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin x. 189 Well, if he can kick anything out of a Government mule, he's a daisy burro.
1892 Harper's Mag. Feb. 438/1 A passenger informed on him for having his coat unbuttoned. Daisy passenger, wasn't it?
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xxxvii. 252 She's my daisy Sunday best-day girl.
1905 R. E. Beach Pardners 139 The noose sailed up and settled over him fine and daisy.
1927 E. Wallace Mixer i. 14 I'll introduce you to the daisiest night club in town.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
daisy-bud n.
daisy-flower n.
daisy-head n.
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1887 W. G. Simpson Art of Golf 91 One sweeps off daisy heads with a walking-stick.
daisy-lawn n.
daisy-root n.
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1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §354 Boyling of Dasie-Roots in Milk.
b.
daisy-dappled adj.
daisy-diapered adj.
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1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. F3 The daysie-diap'red bankes.
daisy-dimpled adj.
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1845 H. B. Hirst Poems 54 Over daisy-dimpled meadows.
daisy-dotted adj.
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1925 W. J. Arkell in Oxf. Poetry 10 The daisy-dotted meadow.
daisy-flowered adj.
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1881 O. Wilde Poems 209 Your queen in daisy-flowered smock.
daisy-frilled adj.
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1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty x. 36 Her daisy-frilled frock.
daisy-like adj.
daisy-painted adj.
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1796 T. Townshend Poems 20 The daisy-painted green.
daisy-peeping adj.
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1929 E. Blunden Near & Far 41 Through spring's daisy-peeping wonder.
daisy-powdered adj.
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1820 ‘Janus Weathercock’ in London Mag. Mar. 287/1 A dark-haired girl, ‘amorous of mischief’, curled on the daisy-powdered grass.
daisy-spangled adj.
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1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab viii. 103 The daisy-spangled lawn.
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daisy anemone n. = sense 3.
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1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore vi. 114 A bad-tempered Daisy Anemone (Actinia bellis), which lived in a cave..and did not approve of intrusion.
daisy-bush n. a New Zealand shrub of the genus Olearia.
daisy fleabane n. U.S. any of several plants of the genus Erigeron.
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1848 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. 206 Erigeron annuum, Daisy Fleabane.
1848 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. 206 Narrow-leaved E. strigosum, Daisy Fleabane.
1872 1st Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1871–2 279 Erigeron annuum and E. strigosum, Daisy Fleabanes, acrid plants, mingle their coarse stalks quite too freely with the hay from newly seeded land.
1931 W. N. Clute Common Names Plants 131 ‘Kiss-me-and-I'll-tell-you’ replied an attractive native of the Southern States when asked the name of that plant which people of colder climes know as the daisy fleabane.
daisy-leaved adj. having leaves like those of the daisy.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having leaves of particular shape or size
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beak-leaved188.
stenophyllous1880
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megaphyllous1901
little leaf1908
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1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 577 Daisie-leaved Lady smock.
daisy roots n. Rhyming slang boots; also elliptical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > boots
daisy roots1859
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 290 Daisy recroots (so spelt by my informant of Seven Dials, he means, doubtless, recruits), a pair of boots.]
1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 24/1 Daisy-roots, boots and shoes.
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 366 Daisy roots, a pair of boots.
1879 Macmillan's Mag. 40 501/2 I piped three or four pair of daisy-roots (boots).
1879 Macmillan's Mag. 40 503/1 While waiting for my pal I had my daisies cleaned.
1943 Gen 25 Sept. 50/1 Your toes is poking out of your daisy-roots.
daisy-tree n. Australian and New Zealand (see quots.).
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1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 113/1 Daisy Tree, two Tasmanian trees, Astur stellulatus..and A. glandulosus.
1926 J. C. Andersen in Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 56 702/2 Olearia: daisy tree, daisy-tree, tree-daisy.
daisy-wheel n. a kind of removable printing unit for typewriters and printers, in which the printing elements are on the sides of arms radiating from a central hub and forming a flat wheel which is automatically rotated to bring a selected character in front of the hammer; also (in full daisy-wheel printer or daisy-wheel typewriter), a machine employing such a unit.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > machine with daisy-wheel printing unit
daisy-wheel typewriter1977
society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > parts which hold type
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1977 Office Mar. 134/2 Daisy-wheel printing mechanism allows operator to change wheels for a variety of typestyles and sizes.
1979 New Scientist 4 Jan. 27/3 ‘Daisy wheel’ printers are now ousting ‘golfballs’ in word processing systems.
1982 Observer 3 Oct. 21 Printers like the daisywheel..produce copy of high enough quality to be used for correspondence.
1983 Your Computer (Austral.) Nov. 20/3 The characters reside on the fingers of a plastic or metal wheel, called a daisywheel or thimble, which revolves past a single hammer.
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rare.
transitive. To cover or adorn with daisies.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > particular flowers [verb (transitive)] > cover with or make like particular flowers
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > produce vegetation [verb (transitive)] > cover with vegetation > specific plant
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1767 G. S. Carey Hills of Hybla 8 When fertile nature dasy'd ev'ry hill.
1831 E. Taylor Remembrance 29 The earth we tread shall be daisied o'er.
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