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pushing daisies

pushing daisies is the present participle and gerund of push daisies.

pushing daisies is the alternative form of pushing up daisies.

Meaning of pushing up daisies

Adjective

pushing up daisies (not comparable)

  1. (euphemistic, humorous) Dead.

Questions about pushing daisies

What is pushing daisies the present participle and gerund of?
Pushing daisies is the present participle and gerund of push daisies.

Words near pushing daisies in the dictionary

  1. pushing and shoving
  2. pushing around
  3. pushing aside
  4. pushing away
  5. pushing back
  6. pushing daisies
  7. pushing down
  8. pushing forward
  9. pushing in
  10. pushing into the long grass
  11. pushing it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pushing daisies (page history and authors); pushing up daisies (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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