wild oatn.

Brit.

/wʌɪld ˈəʊt/, U.S.

/ˌwaɪld ˈoʊt/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wild adj. and n., oat n.

Etymology: < wild adj. and n. + oat n.

1. A tall grass with long twisted awns, Avena fatua, resembling the cultivated oat (of which it is perhaps the wild original), a frequent weed in cornfields.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > wild oat

oateOE

wild oat?a1500

haver1684

Tartary oat1790

onion twitch1875

onion couch1880

onion grass1880

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 785/13 Hec avicula, wild hote.

1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. E vj Ther are ij. kyndes of otes: the one is called in English comonly, otes: and the other..wild otes.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xiii. 467 Also there is a barren Ote, of some called the purre Otes, of others wilde Otes..The Purwottes or wilde Otes, commeth vp in many places amongst wheate and without sowing.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia Table sig. Ll2^v Of the Beard of a wild Oat..the manner of making an Hygroscope with it.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xiii. 147 Bearded Oat-grass, vulgarly called Wild Oats.

1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. 40 Wild oat or haver.

1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 456/1 If cultivation were to cease on the grain-growing plains, and stock were to be kept measurably off of them for a few years, the wild oats would again appear.

1921 K. Burke Let. 1 May in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 82 The first flowers are here: wild oats, benjamins, white violets, Mayflowers.

1999 M. J. Hill et al. in J. White & J. Hodgson N.Z. Pasture & Crop Sci. xvi. 257/1 Ethofumesate can be used to control wild oat, annual poa and other grasses during establishment.

†2. In plural. A dissipated or dissolute young fellow; a ‘wild’ young man. Cf. to sow one's wild oats at Phrases. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person > young

wild oats1542

1542 T. Becon Pleasaunt Newe Nosegaye sig. E.iij The foolyshe desyre of certayne lyghte braynes & wylde Otes, which are all togither gyuen to newe fanglenes.

1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife Well, go to, wild oats! spendthrift! prodigal!

1605 London Prodigall ii. i For this wild oats here, young Flowerdale, I will not judge.

Phrases

to sow one's wild oats [in reference to the folly and mischief of sowing wild oats instead of good grain] : to commit youthful excesses or follies; to spend early life in dissipation or dissolute courses (usually implying subsequent reform). Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > live dissolutely [verb (intransitive)] > in youth

to sow one's wild oats1576

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. 99 That wilfull and vnruly age, which lacketh rypenes and discretion, and (as wee saye) hath not sowed all theyr wyeld Oates.

1583 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue lxxxvii I finde that all my wildest Oates are sowne.

1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore i. ii. 35 You ha trauelled enough now..to sowe your wilde oates.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 179 Thus ended my first Harvest of Wild Oats.

1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. vii. 125 A leniency which often talks thus:..A young man must sow his wild oats and reform.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Nov. 2/3 The wild oats, fully sown, are a veritable road to ruin.

1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman p. xxviii He and I and Mr. Sidney Webb were sowing our political wild oats as a sort of Fabian Three Musketeers, without any prevision of the surprising respectability of the crop that followed.

1969 R. D. Pharr Bk. of Numbers (1970) xxiv. 299 He had been thinking of his interlude with Kelly as being a time of sowing wild oats.

2005 Time Out N.Y. 15 Dec. 157/3 Neal..the superassimilated son of Indian immigrants..is sowing his wild oats before an arranged marriage.

Compounds

General attributive and objective; also in sense ‘relating to the sowing of wild oats’.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [adjective] > specifically of conduct, life, etc.

riotous1389

rakehella1547

rakehelly1594

wild oat1676

orgiastic1698

rakish1704

rakehellish1764

rackety1787

fast-going1856

orgiasticala1871

1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 651 The commodiousness of this kind of Hygroscope in comparison of those made of wild Oat-beards.

1767 E. Pendleton Let. 12 Nov. in Lett. & Papers (1967) I. 35 The land..has very fine wild oat marshes on the river, where a great quantity of hay may be made yearly.

a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 30 An easier and still a cheaper [hygrometer]..may be made by a wild oat-beard, which lengthens with dry weather and contracts with moisture.

1881 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 153 Girls, it seems, have to pass through a millinery climacteric, as their brothers through a wild-oats period.

1934 L. Charteris Boodle xi. 229 The younger Tombs had sought his advice on the subject of wild-oat sowing in London.

1999 Herald (Glasgow) 6 Apr. 13/1 Trying to reverse the effects of a spot of wild oat-sowing in the previous decade.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	wild oat
释义	wild oatn. Brit. /wʌɪld ˈəʊt/, U.S. /ˌwaɪld ˈoʊt/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wild adj. and n., oat n. Etymology: < wild adj. and n. + oat n. 1. A tall grass with long twisted awns, Avena fatua, resembling the cultivated oat (of which it is perhaps the wild original), a frequent weed in cornfields. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > wild oat oateOE wild oat?a1500 haver1684 Tartary oat1790 onion twitch1875 onion couch1880 onion grass1880 ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 785/13 Hec avicula, wild hote. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. E vj Ther are ij. kyndes of otes: the one is called in English comonly, otes: and the other..wild otes. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xiii. 467 Also there is a barren Ote, of some called the purre Otes, of others wilde Otes..The Purwottes or wilde Otes, commeth vp in many places amongst wheate and without sowing. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia Table sig. Ll2^v Of the Beard of a wild Oat..the manner of making an Hygroscope with it. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xiii. 147 Bearded Oat-grass, vulgarly called Wild Oats. 1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. 40 Wild oat or haver. 1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 456/1 If cultivation were to cease on the grain-growing plains, and stock were to be kept measurably off of them for a few years, the wild oats would again appear. 1921 K. Burke Let. 1 May in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 82 The first flowers are here: wild oats, benjamins, white violets, Mayflowers. 1999 M. J. Hill et al. in J. White & J. Hodgson N.Z. Pasture & Crop Sci. xvi. 257/1 Ethofumesate can be used to control wild oat, annual poa and other grasses during establishment. †2. In plural. A dissipated or dissolute young fellow; a ‘wild’ young man. Cf. to sow one's wild oats at Phrases. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person > young wild oats1542 1542 T. Becon Pleasaunt Newe Nosegaye sig. E.iij The foolyshe desyre of certayne lyghte braynes & wylde Otes, which are all togither gyuen to newe fanglenes. 1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife Well, go to, wild oats! spendthrift! prodigal! 1605 London Prodigall ii. i For this wild oats here, young Flowerdale, I will not judge. Phrases to sow one's wild oats [in reference to the folly and mischief of sowing wild oats instead of good grain] : to commit youthful excesses or follies; to spend early life in dissipation or dissolute courses (usually implying subsequent reform). Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > live dissolutely [verb (intransitive)] > in youth to sow one's wild oats1576 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. 99 That wilfull and vnruly age, which lacketh rypenes and discretion, and (as wee saye) hath not sowed all theyr wyeld Oates. 1583 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue lxxxvii I finde that all my wildest Oates are sowne. 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore i. ii. 35 You ha trauelled enough now..to sowe your wilde oates. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 179 Thus ended my first Harvest of Wild Oats. 1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. vii. 125 A leniency which often talks thus:..A young man must sow his wild oats and reform. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Nov. 2/3 The wild oats, fully sown, are a veritable road to ruin. 1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman p. xxviii He and I and Mr. Sidney Webb were sowing our political wild oats as a sort of Fabian Three Musketeers, without any prevision of the surprising respectability of the crop that followed. 1969 R. D. Pharr Bk. of Numbers (1970) xxiv. 299 He had been thinking of his interlude with Kelly as being a time of sowing wild oats. 2005 Time Out N.Y. 15 Dec. 157/3 Neal..the superassimilated son of Indian immigrants..is sowing his wild oats before an arranged marriage. Compounds General attributive and objective; also in sense ‘relating to the sowing of wild oats’. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [adjective] > specifically of conduct, life, etc. riotous1389 rakehella1547 rakehelly1594 wild oat1676 orgiastic1698 rakish1704 rakehellish1764 rackety1787 fast-going1856 orgiasticala1871 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 651 The commodiousness of this kind of Hygroscope in comparison of those made of wild Oat-beards. 1767 E. Pendleton Let. 12 Nov. in Lett. & Papers (1967) I. 35 The land..has very fine wild oat marshes on the river, where a great quantity of hay may be made yearly. a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 30 An easier and still a cheaper [hygrometer]..may be made by a wild oat-beard, which lengthens with dry weather and contracts with moisture. 1881 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 153 Girls, it seems, have to pass through a millinery climacteric, as their brothers through a wild-oats period. 1934 L. Charteris Boodle xi. 229 The younger Tombs had sought his advice on the subject of wild-oat sowing in London. 1999 Herald (Glasgow) 6 Apr. 13/1 Trying to reverse the effects of a spot of wild oat-sowing in the previous decade. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1500
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