Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

daisy buchanan

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English

Syllables: daisy buchanan
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

1

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A woman or girl perceived in an idealized and unrealistic way, especially by the males around her; a naive, careless and beautiful woman.

Example Sentences

"Daisy Buchanan meets David Duke"
"What should have been a victory lap became an agony, not only because he came face-to-face with the tragic inevitability that Shelley would always remain the Daisy Buchanan of his misspent youth, but because he realized that the condition of his return relied on the tacit expectation that he conform to the debauched image he had abandoned when he left New York, an image that would seal him off hermetically into an intolerable, inert past."
""We need to decide." Claire spoke with the conviction of a veteran horse trader. And it dawned on me that the Daisy Buchanan of my youth was taking charge of her father's empire."
"Ellis focuses upon the spectrum opposite that of Vollmann: young, wealthy, careless, emotionally deficient Americans (the Tom and Daisy Buchanans of the late twentieth century)."

Etymology

From the character of the novel The Great Gatsby.

Inflected Forms

Daisy Buchanans (plural)

Questions

What does daisy buchanan mean?: A woman or girl perceived in an idealized and unrealistic way, especially by the males around her; a naive, careless and beautiful woman.
Where does daisy buchanan come from?: From the character of the novel The Great Gatsby.

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