daisy

See also: Daisy and DAISY

English

common daisy (Bellis perennis)

Alternative forms

• daisie, daysie (both obsolete)

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪ.zi/

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• Rhymes: -eɪzi

Noun

daisy (plural daisies)

1. The wild flowering plant Bellis perennis of the Asteraceae family, with a yellow head and white petals
2. Any of numerous other flowering plants of various species, mostly among the asterids.
3. (Cockney rhyming slang) A boot or other footwear.
4. (colloquial) Something splendid; a doozy.
   • 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:

     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?"

Derived terms

terms derived from daisy

• African bush daisy (Euryops chrysanthemoides)
• African daisies (Osteospermum spp.)
• angelita daisy (Tetraneuris acaulis)
• Barberton daisy (Gerbera jamesonii)
• blackfoot daisy (Melampodium leucanthum)
• bull daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
• Cape beach daisy (Arctotheca populifolia)
• Carmel daisy (Scabiosa prolifera)
• common daisy (Bellis perennis)
• crown daisy (Glebionis coronaria)
• cut-leaved daisy (Brachyscome multifida)
• Daisy Bank
• daisy bushes (Brachyglottis greyi, Olearia spp.)
• daisy chain, daisy-chain
• daisy cutter, daisy-cutter
• Daisy Hill
• daisy-kicker
• daisy wheel
• daisy wheel printer
• dill daisies (Argyranthemum spp.)
• dog daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
• electric daisy (Acmella oleracea)
• Engelmann's daisy (Engelmannia peristenia)
• English daisy (Bellis perennis)
• field daisy (Brachyscome decipiens)
• freeway daisy (Osteospermum fruticosum et al.)
• fresh as a daisy
• globe daisies (Globularia spp.)
• gloriosa daisy
• grassland daisy (Brachyscome graminea)
• Hawkesbury daisy (Brachyscome multifida)
• hill daisy (Brachyscome aculeata)
• kingfisher daisy
• lawn daisy (Bellis perennis)
• lazy daisy
• livingstone daisy
• Livingstone daisy (Cleretum bellidiforme)
• Lord Howe daisy (Brachyscome segmentosa)
• marguerite daisies (Argyranthemum spp.)
• Michaelmas daisy (Aster amellus)
• midsummer daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
• Montauk daisy (Nipponanthemum nipponicum)
• moon daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
• Moroccan daisy (Rhodanthemum hosmariense)
• mountain daisy (Brachyscome segmentosa)
• Nippon daisy (Nipponanthemum nipponicum)
• oopsy-daisy
• orange daisy (Erigeron aurantiacus)
• ox-eye daisy, oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
• painted daisy (Tanacetum coccineum)
• Paris daisy (Argyranthemum frutescens)
• push up daisies
• Pyrenees daisy (Leucanthemum lacustre)
• rock daisy (Brachyscome multifida)
• sea daisy (Armeria maritima)
• seaside daisy (Erigeron glaucus)
• Shasta daisy (Leucanthemum × superbum)
• showy daisy (Erigeron speciosus)
• Singapore daisy (Sphagneticola trilobata)
• snow daisy (Brachyscome nivalis)
• stiff daisy (Brachyscome graminea)
• swamp daisy (Brachyscome basaltica)
• Swan River daisy (Brachyscome iberidifolia)
• Tahoka daisy (Machaeranthera tanacetifolia)
• Townsend daisy (Townsendia)
• Transvaal daisy (Gerbera jamesonii)
• tricolor daisy (Ismelia carinata)
• tufted daisy (Brachyscome scapigera)
• turfing daisy (Tripleurospermum tchihatchewii, Tripleurospermum oreades)
• upsy-daisy
• variable daisy (Brachyscome ciliaris)
• white daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
• whoops-a-daisy, whoopsy-daisy, whoopsie-daisy
• woolly daisy (Antheropeas wallacei)
• yam daisy (Microseris lanceolata)
• yellow paper daisy (Helichrysum bracteatum)
• yellow-tongue daisy (Brachyscome chrysoglossa)

 

Translations

Bellis perennis

• Abkhaz: адәыкакаҷ (adʷəkʼakʼačʼ)
• Albanian: margaritë, luleshqerrë (sq), lule delme (tosk), lule dele (gheg), lule kacidhe, lule buke (Pogradec), lule dhensh (Elbasan), lule dheshë (Vuthaj)., luledele (sq) f
• Arabic: أُقْحُوَان (ʔuqḥuwān)
• Armenian: մարգարտածաղիկ (hy) (margartacaġik)
• Azerbaijani: qızçiçəyi
• Basque: basabitxilorea, txiribita
• Belarusian: стакротка f (stakrótka)
• Bulgarian: паричка f (parička), маргаритка f (margaritka)
• Burmese: ဒေစီ (my) (deci)
• Catalan: margarida (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雛菊／雏菊 (co¹ guk¹)

  Mandarin: 雛菊／雏菊 (zh) (chújú), 延命菊 (zh) (yánmìngjú)

• Cornish: egor Duw m
• Czech: sedmikráska chudobka f
• Danish: tusindfryd
• Dutch: madeliefje (nl) n
• Esperanto: lekanto
• Estonian: harilik kirikakar
• Faroese: summardái m
• Finnish: kaunokainen (fi), tuhatkauno (fi)
• French: pâquerette (fr) f, marguerite (fr) f
• Galician: gamarza f, magarza f, margarida (gl) f
• Georgian: ზიზილა (zizila)
• German: Gänseblümchen (de) n, Tausendschönchen n, Tagesauge n
• Greek: μαργαρίτα (el) f (margaríta)
• Hebrew: חִנָּנִית (he) (ẖinanít)
• Hindi: गुलबहार m (gulabhār)
• Hungarian: százszorszép (hu)
• Icelandic: fagurfífill (is) m
• Ido: margriteto (io)
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: nóinín (ga) m
• Italian: pratolina (it) f, margheritina (it) f
• Japanese: 雛菊 (ja) (ひなぎく, hinagiku), 延命菊 (えんめいぎく, enmeigiku)
• Khmer: ផ្កាឈូករ័ត្ន (pkaa cʰuuk roatta)
• Korean: 데이지 (ko) (deiji)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: beybûn (ku) f

• Lao: ດອກກ້ານກ່ອງ (dǭk kān kǭng)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Margréitchen (lb) f
• Norman: amouroque f, pâquerette f
• Norn: kokkeluri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tusenfryd (no) m

  Nynorsk: tusenfryd m

• Old English: dæġes ēage n
• Plautdietsch: Gaunsebloom f
• Polish: stokrotka (pl) f
• Portuguese: margarida f
• Romanian: bănuț (ro) m, părăluță (ro) f, bănuțel (ro) m
• Russian: маргари́тка (ru) f (margarítka)
• Scottish Gaelic: neòinean f
• Serbo-Croatian: tràtīnčica (sh) f, bȇla ráda f
• Slovak: sedmokráska (sk) f
• Slovene: marjética (sl) f
• Spanish: margarita común f, chiribita f
• Swahili: kibibimlima
• Swedish: tusensköna (sv) c
• Tagalog: butonsilyo
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: เดซี (dee-sîi)
• Turkish: papatya (tr), yoğurt çiçeği (tr)
• Ukrainian: маргари́тка f (marharýtka)
• Vietnamese: hoa cúc, hoa cúc mâm xôi
• Welsh: llygad y dydd m
• Yiddish: מאַרגאַריטקע f (margaritke)

commonly used term for related flowers

• Cornish: caja f
• Dutch: margriet (nl) m or f
• Finnish: päivänkakkara (fi) (oxeye daisy)
• French: marguerite (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Tagesauge n
• Italian: margherita (it) f
• Kazakh: дәстүргүл (dästürgül)
• Maori: parani
• Norwegian: margaritt m
• Old English: dæġes ēage n
• Portuguese: margarida (pt) f
• Romanian: margaretă (ro) f
• Spanish: margarita (es) f
• Swahili: jaja (sw)
• Swedish: prästkrage (sv)
• Turkish: papatya (tr)
• Welsh: llygad y dydd m, llygad (cy) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} زَهْر اللُؤْلُؤْ m (zahr al-luʔluʔ)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} margerita f
• Old English: ^{(please verify)} dæġes ēaġe n
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} margaretă (ro) f

References

• daisy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• I'd say, Sayid, diyas