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hay

1

[ hey ]

noun

  1. grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
  2. grass mowed or intended for mowing.
  3. Slang.
    1. a small sum of money:

      Twenty dollars an hour for doing very little certainly ain't hay.

    2. money:

      A thousand dollars for a day's work is a lot of hay!

  4. Slang. marijuana.


verb (used with object)

  1. to convert (plant material) into hay.
  2. to furnish (horses, cows, etc.) with hay.

verb (used without object)

  1. to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage.

Hay

2

[ hey ]

noun

  1. John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
  2. a river in NW Canada, flowing NE to the Great Slave Lake. 530 miles (853 km) long.

Hay

1

/ ³ó±ðɪ /

noun

  1. HayWill18881949MBritishTHEATRE: comedianFILMS AND TV: actor Will. 1888–1949, British music-hall comedian, who later starred in films, such as Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)
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hay

2

/ ³ó±ðɪ /

noun

    1. grass, clover, etc, cut and dried as fodder
    2. ( in combination )

      a hayfield

      a hayloft

  1. hit the hay slang.
    to go to bed
  2. make hay of
    to throw into confusion
  3. make hay while the sun shines
    to take full advantage of an opportunity
  4. roll in the hay informal.
    sexual intercourse or heavy petting
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to cut, dry, and store (grass, clover, etc) as fodder
  2. tr to feed with hay
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

hay

3

/ ³ó±ðɪ /

noun

  1. a circular figure in country dancing
  2. a former country dance in which the dancers wove in and out of a circle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³ó²¹²â·±ð²â adjective
  • ³Ü²Ô·³ó²¹²â±ð»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hay1

before 900; Middle English; Old English ³óŧ²µ; cognate with German Heu, Old Norse hey, Gothic hawi. See hew
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hay1

Old English hieg; related to Old Norse hey, Gothic hawi, Old Frisian ³óŧ, Old High German houwi; see hew

Origin of hay2

C16: of uncertain origin
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Idioms and Phrases

  1. a roll in the hay, Slang. sexual intercourse.
  2. hit the hay, Informal. to go to bed:

    It got to be past midnight before anyone thought of hitting the hay.

  3. in the hay, in bed; retired, especially for the night:

    By ten o'clock he's in the hay.

  4. make hay of, to scatter in disorder; render ineffectual:

    The destruction of the manuscript made hay of two years of painstaking labor.

  5. make hay while the sun shines, to seize an opportunity when it presents itself: Also make hay.

    If you want to be a millionaire, you have to make hay while the sun shines.

More idioms and phrases containing hay

see hit the hay ; make hay while the sun shines ; roll in the hay ; that ain't hay .
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Example Sentences

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He descends a nearby hill, rests his neck on the nearest fence and chews at the air as though the singing vibrations were made of hay.

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Her shadow interacts with the physical world, too, making wind chimes whistle with a wag of her fingers — a deliciously spooky detail the movie doesn’t make enough hay out of.

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High pollen levels will mean tricky conditions for some hay fever sufferers, and with the sun gaining strength at this time of year, UV levels are likely to be moderate.

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“Grant is fine. He’s not the best Bachelor or the worst. This show has cast and made hay out of a lot of mediocre white men over the years.â€

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There will be some good news for people that suffer from hay fever.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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