daffodowndilly
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
daffodowndilly (plural daffodowndillies)
- (informal) the daffodil.
- 1911, Margaret Deland, The Iron Woman, page 15:
- She had put a daffodowndilly behind each ear, and twisted a dandelion chain around her neck.
- 1932, Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm:
- ye might as soon send the white hawthorn or the yellow daffodowndilly to school as my Elfine.