Meaning of daisy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female given name from English.
2. Acronym of Digital Accessible Information System, an XML-based open standard for people whose disability makes it difficult to read print.
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3. A Girl Scout at the initial introductory level.
4. A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals
5. A surname.
6. A common name for a cow.
7. Any of numerous other flowering plants of various species, mostly among the asterids
8. Any of numerous other flowering plants of various species, mostly among the asterids.
9. A boot or other footwear
10. A boot or other footwear.
    Cockney, slang
11. Something splendid; a doozy
12. Something splendid; a doozy.
    colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“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?"”

“Mrs. Fairfax kept always an eye upon him, and in spite of his familiarity with her, so restrained him in his intercourse with Margaret, that he could not for his life call her Daisy any more, though he had done so on the first day of their acquaintance.”

“Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do! / I'm half crazy all for the love of you!”

“She was a timid, sensitive girl, looking like her name - Daisy-ish industrious and thorough in her studies; - - -”

“"Isn't she a Christian or something - a name which is..." "Nothing more than the name of a flower, that's all. Daisy is a flower." He realized he was not sure what flower it was. "It's a most lovely flower grown in America, England, and so forth. What is wrong with that name?"”

“The heifer Daisy died in September 1811.”

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