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daffodilly

daffodilly noun: a daffodil.

Noun

daffodilly (plural daffodillies)

  1. (childish, colloquial, dialectal, poetic) A daffodil.
    • And he cut the leaves of the snow-drop down, / And tied up the daffodilly; / And then he sung, as he bent at ’s work, / With a “Hiho! willy, willy.”1835 September, Mary Howitt, “Traditionary Ballads. […] No. V.—The Lady Magdalene. A Legend of an English Hall.”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine for 1835, volume II (New Series), number XXI, Edinburgh...
    • OK I’ll take it one flight down with a daffodilly for my love […]2000, Anselm Hollo, poem 16, in rue Wilson Monday, Albuquerque, N.M.: La Alameda Press, →ISBN, page 30

Adjective

daffodilly (comparative more daffodilly, superlative most daffodilly)

  1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of a daffodil.
    • The demise of a distinguished person in relaton to whom (as in your case) much may be said on both sides, is a sort of God send to the press. Only think of it! The whole periodical & diurnal press of England ringing with the praise of such a daffodilly Poet as [William] Wordsworth!1851 July 16, Gorham A. Worth, letter; quoted in “To Gorham A. Worth”, in James Franklin Beard, editor, The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper, volume VI, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press...
    • May was forced to obey. She felt belittled standing on line. Some day, when she’d be famous, she vowed, she’d make this daffodilly young fellow eat out of her hand. She regarded him down her nose, yet rather liked his nice manners. Some one called him Mart, but to May he was—and always...1926 May, B. Beatrice Lubitz, “The Understudy […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LXXXVII, number 4, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], →OCLC, section I, page 679
  2. (rare) With daffodils.
    • It is Homer’s “asphodelos leimon,” the daffodilly mead or meadow, descriptive of Elysium, the Hesperides or western isles of departed shades.1992, A[lexander] B. Chambers, “[Robert] Herrick and the Ceremonies of Art”, in Transfigured Rites in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry, Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 232
    • He ceded a moment to the daffodilly breeze and the sound of crickets before answering.2015, Nick Tosches, chapter 31, in Under Tiberius: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 273
    Synonyms:
    daffodilled

Examples of daffodilly in a sentence

  • Some day, when she’d be famous, she vowed, she’d make this daffodilly young fellow eat out of her hand.1926 May, B. Beatrice Lubitz, “The Understudy […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LXXXVII, number 4, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew]...
  • I see that corns, that warts, that old, gray thoughts need to be cut away by my sapphire ideas, my Uranian mind and my daffodilly whims.1986, Hyacinthe Hill, “Aquarius”, in Poetry and the Stars, Putnam Valley, N.Y.: Scop and Gleeman Publishers, →ISBN, page 78:
  • Who were greeted by a battery of baa-lambs that butted them from their bosky balcony into the daffodilly deeps.2017, John Gallas, “Song 90 […]”, in The Little Sublime Comedy, Manchester: Carcanet Press, →ISBN, page 112:

Synonyms of daffodilly

Forms of daffodilly

Noun
pluraldaffodillies
Adjective
comparativemore daffodilly
superlativemost daffodilly

Origin of daffodilly

A form of daffodil, perhaps influenced by lily; in colloquial and childish use, by -y (diminutive suffix).

From daffodil + -y (adjectival suffix).

Questions about daffodilly

What does daffodilly mean?
Daffodilly means a daffodil.
How do you use daffodilly in a sentence?
Some day, when she’d be famous, she vowed, she’d make this daffodilly young fellow eat out of her hand.
What part of speech is daffodilly?
Daffodilly can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of daffodilly?
The plural of daffodilly is daffodillies.

Words near daffodilly in the dictionary

  1. daffodil telephone
  2. daffodil telephones
  3. daffodiled
  4. daffodilled
  5. daffodillies
  6. daffodilly
  7. daffodils
  8. daffodowndillies
  9. daffodowndilly
  10. Daffron
  11. Daffrons

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