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gape_seed
gape seed
See also: gapeseed
English
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.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.9: