The source word is 18th-century up-a-daisy, itself from dialectal upaday. The variants with oops and whoops are believed to have led to those words becoming ...

The earliest known use of the interjection whoops-a-daisy is in the 1920s. OED's earliest evidence for whoops-a-daisy is from 1925, in the New Yorker. whoops-a ...

7 окт. 2002 г. · The first use of “whoops-a-daisy” per se is around 1925, in a New Yorker cartoon. It's an expression of surprise or dismay, specifically upon ...

2 апр. 2020 г. · The original expression is whoops-a-daisy. It is just an exclamation of surprise, without any specific meaning. What is the origin of the phrase ' Oopsy Daisy' and what does it ... Where and when did the slang word 'oopsie-daisy ... - Quora Другие результаты с сайта www.quora.com

whoops-a-daisy. (informal) Used to acknowledge a mistake. Synonyms. edit · oops · whoops · whoopsie-daisy · upsy-daisy. Translations.

The expression is first recorded, as 'Whoopsie Daisy! ', in the New Yorker, in September 1925. In the 1999 film Notting Hill, Hugh Grant's character falls over ...

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Origin of Oops a Daisy. People most frequently use this exclamation with children, especially after children fall down. It is a way to acknowledge the fall yet ...

7 дней назад · 2 meanings: → another name for whoops an exclamation of surprise, as when a person falls over, or of apology.... Click for more definitions.

12 дек. 2011 г. · They're both variants of the original upsidaisy which was something you said to a child as you lifted it up back in the nineteenth century.