doozy

Origin: . First appearance 1903. Perhaps from the flower (Rudyard Kipling used daisy in this sense) or the name of Italian actress Eleonora Duse. The automobile manufacturer Duesenberg is often erroneously cited as the origin, but the word existed more than a decade earlier. Alternatively, possibly from , but this is chronologically unlikely and not attested in period sources. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).