hayey

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From hay +‎ -ey.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

hayey (not comparable)

  1. Resembling or smelling or tasting like hay.
    • 1871, Curtis Guild, Over the ocean: or, Sights and scenes in foreign lands, page 31:
      That inevitable pork fat that flavors everything after one gets west of Buffalo, and a little off the line of travel that leads you through the great hotels in the great cities in America, — that saleratus bread, hayey tea, clammy pie-crust, []
    • 1995, William Michael Murphy, Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives, page 72:
      "I am sure it is a year since I ate one before," Lollie wrote, "but in spite of a hayey flavor I liked it"
    • 1995, Rachna Gilmore, A Friend Like Zilla, page 10:
      It looked all dim and hayey inside. My stomach tingled. Please let there be kids at the farm, someone my age. I just had to play in that barn. I'd read about kids swinging in haylofts, but I'd never done fun stuff like that.

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