| 单词 | to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto seek, buy, or sow gape-seed 1. In sarcastic phrases to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed: to stare gapingly at a fair or market, instead of transacting useful business. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze stareOE gawc1175 darea1225 porec1300 muse1340 glowc1374 gogglec1380 gazec1386 glore?a1400 glopc1400 govec1480 glower?a1513 gowk1513 daze1523 amuse1532 glew1587 to feed one's eyes1590 to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598 to shoot one's eyes1602 glazea1616 stargaze1639 gaum1691 to stare like a stuck pig1702 ygaze1737 gawk1785 to feed one's sight1813 gloze1853 glow1856 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes To go idly loytring vp and downe as we say, to go seeking for a halfepenie worth of gaping seede. 1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will in Wks. (Grosart) VI. 144 If a fellow..Should all his life time go from faire to faire, And buy gape-seede, hauing no businesse else. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. xiv. 195 They sow but gape-seed, which, if well husbanded, yeilds them a goodly crop of wonders. 1694 W. Winstanley Poor Robin sig. B3v And by that means..They for their Gapes-seed do pay dear. 1779 Koran i. xl, in Sterne's Wks. (Dublin) VI. 81 The nine days wonder had sown its gape-seed long before. The novelty grew stale. 1856 Notes & Queries 2nd Ser. 1 362 Plenty of persons were ‘sowing gape seed’ at them. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) ‘She's gone to Brigg Stattus to saw gape-seed.’ < as lemmas |
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