Definitions for daisies

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daisies dai·sy

Spelling: [dey-zee]

IPA: /ˈdeɪ zi/

Daisies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in daisies (adeiiss).

Definitions for daisies

noun

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:
4. a cheddar cheese of cylindrical shape, weighing about 20 pounds.

Idioms

1. push up daisies, Informal. to be dead and buried.

Origin of daisies

before 1000; Middle English dayesye, Old English dægesēge the day's eye

Examples for daisies

And she swished her tail over her back as she nipped the daisies from their stems.

But he threw me off his shoulders in a huff, among the daisies and the cyclamens.

"There'll be daisies growing on her grave by this time," said Pete softly.

But the Field of poppies and daisies begins to sway as under a gale.

Before her is a meadow of rich herbage, covered with daisies.

The moon was a lone white lamb on a shadowy hill all spotted with daisies.

I pluck the daisies as they grow, and take them home,' said the old woman after a short silence. '

No Emmas, no Ishmaels, no Pips, no daisies (Miller or Buchanan).

All remembered the little brown hat with its wreath of daisies.

Skied three days on the daisies (and a bit of snow) and then left for the hot glorious desert, horses, tennis, swimming.