Other forms: daisies
A daisy is the small flower with white petals and a yellow middle that grows in lawns. Pick daisies, a daisy chain, the lawn is full of daisies.
The common lawn daisy is the one children thread into daisy chains. The name also covers a whole family — oxeye daisy, Michaelmas daisy, gerbera — which are all built the same way, with a ring of petals round a disc. Note fresh as a daisy, meaning wide awake and full of energy, and pushing up the daisies, which is a cheerfully blunt way of saying somebody is dead.
1noundaisyA small white flower with a yellow middle.
“The whole lawn was white with daisies by May.”
daisy is a flower.
Old English dæges eage means day's eye — the flower closes at night and opens with the sun. It is one of the loveliest etymologies in English, and the word has worn down so far that almost nobody hears the phrase inside it.
Old English
dæġes ēage — daisy
Middle English
dayesye
English, today
daisy
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA