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hay
1[hey]
noun
grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
grass mowed or intended for mowing.
Slang.
a small sum of money.
Twenty dollars an hour for doing very little certainly ain't hay.
money.
A thousand dollars for a day's work is a lot of hay!
Slang.marijuana.
verb (used with object)
to convert (plant material) into hay.
to furnish (horses, cows, etc.) with hay.
verb (used without object)
to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage.
Hay
2[hey]
noun
John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
a river in NW Canada, flowing NE to the Great Slave Lake. 530 miles (853 km) long.
hay
1/ ɪ /
noun
grass, clover, etc, cut and dried as fodder
( in combination )
a hayfield
a hayloft
slangto go to bed
to throw into confusion
to take full advantage of an opportunity
informalsexual intercourse or heavy petting
verb
to cut, dry, and store (grass, clover, etc) as fodder
(tr) to feed with hay
hay
2/ ɪ /
noun
a circular figure in country dancing
a former country dance in which the dancers wove in and out of a circle
Hay
3/ ɪ /
noun
Will. 1888–1949, British music-hall comedian, who later starred in films, such as Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)
Other Word Forms
- hayey adjective
- unhayed adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of hay1
Origin of hay2
Idioms and Phrases
make hay of, to scatter in disorder; render ineffectual.
The destruction of the manuscript made hay of two years of painstaking labor.
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.
in the hay, in bed; retired, especially for the night.
By ten o'clock he's in the hay.
hit the hay, to go to bed.
It got to be past midnight before anyone thought of hitting the hay.
a roll in the hay, sexual intercourse.
Example Sentences
This year the warm weather in the UK, plus last year's too, means conditions have been ideal for birch tree pollen - a major hay fever trigger.
Grass pollen also peaks in June, often making this a miserable time of year for hay fever sufferers.
It affects about 95% of hay fever sufferers and is at its peak from now until July.
"The cattle just eat grass from the pasture and hay made from it in the winter - nothing else," says Oliver.
In the yard there are tractors and hay bales, dogs running around.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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