An archaic, playful, or poetic variant of daffodil, particularly used in Early Modern English literature.
A singularization of 'daffodowndilly' or development from Early Modern English wordplay with 'daffodil', combining the flower name with nonsense reduplication 'down' for whimsical effect.
Medieval and Renaissance poets loved exaggerating flower names for rhythm and musicality—'daffodowndilly' is basically the 16th-century equivalent of making a word cutesy, and it appears in nursery rhymes and pastoral poems for exactly that playful sound.
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