gape seed

See also: gapeseed

English

From gape +‎ seed.

gape seed (plural gape seeds)

Something to be gaped at, a strange sight; typically used in phrases such as to buy, sow etc. gape seed, describing people who merely stand and stare instead of transacting business.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.9:
  justice hath also knowledge and animadversion over such as gather stubble (as the common saying is) or looke about for gape-seed.

单词	gape seed
释义	gape seed See also: gapeseed English Etymology From gape +‎ seed. Noun gape seed (plural gape seeds) Something to be gaped at, a strange sight; typically used in phrases such as to buy, sow etc. gape seed, describing people who merely stand and stare instead of transacting business. 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.9: justice hath also knowledge and animadversion over such as gather stubble (as the common saying is) or looke about for gape-seed. Anagrams pedagese
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