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dai⋅sy
[dey-zee] 
–noun, plural -sies.
—Idiom| 1. | any of various composite plants the flowers of which have a yellow disk and white rays, as the English daisy and the oxeye daisy. |
| 2. | Also called daisy ham. a small section of pork shoulder, usually smoked, boned, and weighing from two to four pounds. Compare picnic (def. 3). |
| 3. | Slang. someone or something of first-rate quality: That new car is a daisy. |
| 4. | a cheddar cheese of cylindrical shape, weighing about 20 pounds. |
| 5. | push up daisies, Informal. to be dead and buried. |
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME dayesye, OE dægesēge the day's eye
bef. 1000; ME dayesye, OE dægesēge the day's eye
Related forms:
daisied, adjective
Dai⋅sy
[dey-zee] –noun
| a female given name. |
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| dai·sy (dā'zē) n. pl. dai·sies
[Middle English daisie, from Old English dæges ēage : dæges, genitive of dæg, day; see agh- in Indo-European roots + ēage, eye; see okw- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Daisy
Dai"sy\, n.; pl. Daisies. [OE. dayesye, AS. d[ae]ges?eage day's eye, daisy. See Day, and Eye.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Composit[ae]. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays. (b) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed. Note: The word daisy is also used for composite plants of other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane. Michaelmas daisy (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of which there are many species. Oxeye daisy (Bot.), the whiteweed. See Daisy (b) .
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : daisy
Spanish:
margarita,
German:
das Gänseblümchen,
Japanese:
ひなぎく
daisy
O.E. dægesege, from dæges eage "day's eye," because the petals open at dawn and close at dusk. In M.L. it was solis oculus "sun's eye." Daisy-cutter first attested 1791, originally of horses that trotted 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 variant with the same meaning go back to 1842.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Daisy
A functional language.
["Daisy Programming Manual", S.D. Johnson, CS Dept TR, Indiana U, 1988].
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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daisy
In addition to the idiom beginning with daisy, also see fresh as a daisy; push up daisies.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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