Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals · Any of numerous other flowering plants of various species, mostly among the asterids. · A boot or other footwear. · Something splendid; a doozy.
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.
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- Inherited-form mentiondayesyeenm
- Inherited-form mentiondæġes ēageang
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