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▪ I. daisy, n.|ˈdeɪzɪ|
Forms: 1 dæᵹeseᵹe, -eaᵹe, 3–4 dayes-eȝe, -eghe, 4 dayesye, -eye, 4–5 daysye, 4–7 daysie, daisie, (5 pl. dayses), 5–6 daysy, 6 deysy, dasye, dasey, dayzie, 6–7 dasy, 7 days-eye, dazy, -ie, (pl. dayzes, Sc. desie, deasie), 7–8 daizy, 6– daisy.
[OE. dæᵹes éaᵹe day's eye, eye of day, in allusion to the appearance of the flower, and to its closing the ray, so as to conceal the yellow disk, in the evening, and opening again in the morning.]
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.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 135/22 Consolda, dæᵹeseᵹe. c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 292 ᵹearwe, and fif⁓leafe, dæᵹeseᵹe, and synnfulle. a1310in Wright Lyric P. xiii. 43 Dayes-eȝes in thio dales. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 43 Of al the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men called daysyes. Ibid. 184 Wele by reson men it calle may The dayeseye, or ellis the eye of day. c1450Crt. of Love xv, Depeinted wonderly, With many a thousand daisies, rede as rose, And white also. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. June 6 The grassye ground with daintye Daysies dight. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 904 Daisies pied and Violets blew. 1625Bacon Ess. Gardens (Arb.) 556 For March, There come Violets..The Yellow Daffadill; The Dazie. 1710Addison Tatler No. 218 ⁋9 Visits to a Spot of Daizies, or a Bank of Violets. 1803Leyden Scenes of Inf. i. 291 When evening brings the merry folding hours, And sun-eyed daisies close their winking flowers. 1833Marryat P. Simple xxxv, She was as fresh as a daisy. 1861Delamer Fl. Gard. 81 There are Quilled, Double, and Proliferous or Hen-and-Chicken Daisies.
b. Cf. daisy-cutter 1.
1847W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) IV. 28 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.
1842Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Babes in the Wood iv, Be kind to those dear little folks When our toes are turned up to the daisies. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. I. xi. 356, I shall very soon hide [my name] under some daisies. a1918W. Owen Poems (1963) 65 ‘Pushing up daisies’ is their creed, you know. 1928S. Vines Humours Unreconciled xxi. 268, I think she's drinking herself under the daisies, so to speak. 1938G. Heyer Blunt Instrument xiii. 252 ‘Where is the wife now?’.. ‘Pushing up daisies... Died..a couple of years ago.’ 1961S. 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. 1970Guardian 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.
a. simply. In N. America, the Ox-eye Daisy, Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum (see b); in Australia, various Compositæ, esp. Vitadenia and Brachycome iberidifolia; in New Zealand, the genus Lagenophora.
b. With qualifications, as African daisy, Athanasia annua; blue daisy, (a) the Sea Starwort; (b) the genus Globularia; bull d. = ox-eye d.; butter d., locally applied to the Buttercup, and to the Ox-eye Daisy; Christmas d., several species of Aster, esp. A. grandiflorus; dog d. = ox-eye d.; globe d., the genus Globularia; great d., horse d., midsummer d., moon d. = ox-eye d.; marsh d. = sea d.; Michaelmas d., various cultivated species of Aster which blossom about Michaelmas; also applied to the wild Aster Tripolium; ox-eye daisy, Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, a common plant in meadows, with flowers resembling those of the common daisy but much larger, on tall stiff stalks; sea daisy, Thrift, Armeria maritima. (See Treas. Bot., and Britten & Holland Eng. Plant-n.)
a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 16 Consolida media, grete dayeseghe. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xix. 169 There be two kindes of Daysies, the great and the small. Ibid. iii. xxxiii. 364 Some call it blew Camomil or blew Dasies. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. 396 The Ox-eye Daisy, a plant common among standing grass in meadows. 1838Scrope Deerstalking 388 Even the highest hills..are scattered over with the sea daisy and other plants. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 286 (Sea-Starwort)..Country people call it Blue Daisy.
3. A species of sea-anemone (Actinia bellis).
1859Lewes Sea-side Stud. Index.
†4. As a term of admiration. Obs.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 515 A dere dewchesse, my daysyys Iee! a1605Montgomerie 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.
1757Foote Author ii. Wks. 1799 I. 148 Oh daisy; that's charming. 1886F. H. Burnett Little Ld. Fauntleroy xv. (1887) 263 ‘She's the daisiest gal I ever saw! She's —well she's just a daisy, that's what she is.’ 1888Denver Republican May (Farmer), Beyond compare a pugilistic daisy. 1889Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 22 Mar. 2/3 In a new book upon ‘Americanisms,’ some of the less familiar are..daisy, for anything first-rate.
6. attrib. or as adj.
a. Resembling a daisy.
a1605Montgomerie Well of Love 41 Hir deasie colour, rid and vhyte. 1611W. Barksted Hiren (1876) 83, I sweare by this diuine white daizy-hand. 1854–6Patmore Angel in Ho. i. ii. iv, She Whose daisy eyes had learned to droop.
b. U.S. slang. (See sense 5.) Also as adv.
1886[see sense 5]. 1887F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin x. 189 Well, if he can kick anything out of a Government mule, he's a daisy burro. 1892Harper's Mag. Feb. 438/1 A passenger informed on him for having his coat unbuttoned. Daisy passenger, wasn't it? 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail xxxvii. 252 She's my daisy Sunday best-day girl. 1905R. Beach Pardners (1912) v. 130 The noose sailed up and settled over him fine and daisy. 1927E. Wallace Mixer i. 14 I'll introduce you to the daisiest night club in town.
7. Comb., as daisy-bud, daisy-flower, daisy-head, daisy-lawn, daisy-root; daisy-dappled, daisy-diapered, daisy-dimpled, daisy-dotted, daisy-flowered, daisy-frilled, daisy-like, daisy-painted, daisy-peeping, daisy-powdered, daisy-spangled adjs.; daisy anemone = sense 3; daisy-bush, a New Zealand shrub of the genus Olearia; daisy fleabane U.S., any of several plants of the genus Erigeron; daisy-leaved a., having leaves like those of the daisy; daisy roots Rhyming slang, boots; also ellipt.; daisy-tree Austral. and N.Z. (see quots.); daisy-wheel, 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.
1857Wood Comm. Obj. Sea Shore vi. 114 A bad-tempered *Daisy Anemone (Actinia bellis), which lived in a cave..and did not approve of intrusion.
1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 81 The *daysie-diap'red bankes.
1845Hirst Poems 54 Over *daisy-dimpled meadows.
1925W. J. Arkell in Oxf. Poetry 10 The *daisy-dotted meadow.
1848A. Gray Man. Bot. 206 Erigeron annuum, *Daisy Fleabane. Ibid., Narrow-leaved E. strigosum, Daisy Fleabane. 1872Rep. Vermont Board Agric. I. 279 Erigeron annuum and E. strigosum, Daisy Fleabanes, acrid plants, mingle their coarse stalks quite too freely with the hay from newly seeded land. 1931W. 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.
1881Wilde Poems 209 Your queen in *daisy-flowered smock.
1924E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty x. 36 Her *daisy-frilled frock.
1887W. G. Simpson Art of Golf 91 One sweeps off *daisy heads with a walking-stick.
1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 577 *Daisie-leaved Lady smock.
1796T. Townshend Poems 20 The *daisy-painted green.
1929Blunden Near & Far 41 Through spring's *daisy-peeping wonder.
1820‘Janus Weathercock’ in London Mag. Mar. 287/1 A dark-haired girl, ‘amorous of mischief’, curled on the *daisy-powdered grass.
1626Bacon Sylva §354 Boyling of *Dasie-Roots in Milk. [1859Hotten Slang Dict. 290 Daisy recroots (so spelt by my informant of Seven Dials, he means, doubtless, recruits), a pair of boots.] 1859Matsell Vocabulum 24/1 Daisy-roots, boots and shoes. 1873Hotten Slang Dict. 366 Daisy roots, a pair of boots. 1879Macm. Mag. XL. 501/2 I piped three or four pair of daisy-roots (boots). Ibid. 503/1 While waiting for my pal I had my daisies cleaned. 1943Gen 25 Sept. 50/1 Your toes is poking out of your daisy-roots.
1813Shelley Q. Mab viii. 82 The *daisy-spangled lawn.
1898Morris Austral Eng. 113/1 *Daisy Tree, two Tasmanian trees, Astur stellulatus..and A. glandulosus. 1926J. C. Andersen in Trans. N.Z. Instit. LVI. 702/2 Olearia: daisy tree, daisy-tree, tree-daisy.
1977Office Mar. 134/2 *Daisy-wheel printing mechanism allows operator to change wheels for a variety of typestyles and sizes. 1979New Scientist 4 Jan. 27/3 ‘Daisy wheel’ printers are now ousting ‘golfballs’ in word processing systems. 1982Observer 3 Oct. 21 Printers like the daisywheel..produce copy of high enough quality to be used for correspondence. 1983Your 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.
▪ II. ˈdaisy, v. rare.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To cover or adorn with daisies.
1767G. S. Carey Hills of Hybla 8 When fertile nature dasy'd ev'ry hill. 1831E. Taylor Remembrance 29 The earth we tread shall be daisied o'er. |