gape seed

noun

Something to be gaped at; a strange sight.

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Meanings

noungape seed (countable and uncountable, plural gape seeds)

plural gape seeds

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableSomething to be gaped at; a strange sight.

    justice hath also knowledge and animadversion over such as gather stubble (as the common saying is) or looke about for gape-seed.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.9

Origin

From gape + seed.

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Chicago

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