daffodilly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a daffodil.
adj
With daffodils.
Example Sentences
- "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.”"
- "OK I’ll take it one flight down with a daffodilly for my love […]"
- "Goofy ran for the door. “I need a daffodilly!” he said. There was one daffodil left in the garden, but he needed something to cut it."
- "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!"
- "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 remained—Wales."
- "I am, by tradition, authority, left unimpressed. 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."
Etymology
A form of daffodil, perhaps influenced by lily; in colloquial and childish use, by -y (diminutive suffix).