grassture

grassture

English

Etymology

Blend of grass +‎ pasture

Noun

grassture (plural grasstures)

1. (nonstandard, humorous, childish) A grassy pasture.
   • 1967, Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, 7/6/1967:

     "It's a picture I drew of some cows standing in a grassture." (Linus)

   • 1970, Edward Stewart, Rock Rude, (Simon & Schuster) p. 264

     "He maketh me to sigh town in lean grasstures; he pleadeth me beside the ill daughters ..."

   • 1971, Gillian Edmonds, "The World", The Rotarian (Dec 1971), p. 29

     And spiderweb roads are silhouetted in the vague, rough, lush pastures, greens of ‘grasstures.’

   • 2010, Mary R. Jalongo, Early Childhood Language Arts, 5th Edition (Allyn & Bacon)

     Alaina tells you that she saw cows standing in a “grassture” during her trip to Kentucky.