英语词汇“daisy-cutters”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

单词

daisy-cutters

释义

daisy /dāˈzi/

noun

A composite wild or garden plant (Bellis perennis), whose flowers have a yellow disc and white rays
Extended to other plants such as the ox-eye daisy, which is a chrysanthemum
A general term of admiration, often ironical (old US sl)

ORIGIN: OE dæges ēage day's eye

daiˈsied adjective

Covered with daisies

daisy chain noun

A string of daisies each threaded through the stem of the next
A group of dealers who buy and sell a commodity among themselves in order to inflate the price to outside buyers (commerce)

daiˈsy-chain transitive verb

daiˈsy-cutter noun (informal)

A fast-going horse that does not lift its feet high (archaic)
(in cricket) a ball bowled along the ground or that keeps low on pitching
A powerful bomb designed to explode close to the ground, destroying anything within a wide radius

daiˈsy-wheel noun

A flat, horizontal, wheel-shaped device in a typewriter or printer with printing characters at the end of the spokes

fresh as a daisy

Bright and vigorous, with strength and spirits unimpaired

New Zealand daisy bush

A half-hardy shrub of the genus Olearia, with daisy-like flowers

pushing up the daisies (slang)

Dead (and buried)

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