A roll in the hay

[hey] /heɪ/
noun
gr-ss, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
gr-ss mowed or intended for mowing.
slang.

a small sum of money:
twenty dollars an hour for doing very little certainly ain’t hay.
money:
a thousand dollars for a day’s work is a lot of hay!

slang. marijuana.
verb (used with object)
to convert (plant material) into hay.
to furnish (horses, cows, etc.) with hay.
verb (used without object)
to cut gr-ss, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage.
idioms
a roll in the hay, slang. s-xual intercourse.
hit the hay, informal. to go to bed:
it got to be past midnight before anyone thought of hitting the hay.
in the hay, in bed; retired, especially for the night:
by ten o’clock he’s in the hay.
make hay of, to scatter in disorder; render ineffectual:
the destruction of the m-n-script made hay of two years of painstaking labor.
make hay while the sun shines, to seize an opportunity when it presents itself:
if you want to be a millionaire, you have to make hay while the sun shines.
also, make hay.
related forms
hayey, adjective
unhayed, adjective
hay1
/heɪ/
noun

gr-ss, clover, etc, cut and dried as fodder
(in combination): a hayfield, a hayloft

(slang) hit the hay, to go to bed
make hay of, to throw into confusion
make hay while the sun shines, to take full advantage of an opportunity
(informal) roll in the hay, s-xual intercourse or heavy petting
verb
to cut, dry, and store (gr-ss, clover, etc) as fodder
(transitive) to feed with hay
word origin
old english hieg; related to old norse hey, gothic hawi, old frisian hē, old high german houwi; see hew
hay2
/heɪ/
noun
a circular figure in country dancing
a former country dance in which the dancers wove in and out of a circle
word origin
c16: of uncertain origin
hay
/heɪ/
noun
will. 1888–1949, british music-hall comedian, who later starred in films, such as oh, mr porter! (1937)
hay
n.

“gr-ss mown,” old english heg (anglian), hieg, hig (west saxon) “gr-ss cut or mown for fodder,” from proto-germanic -haujam (cf. old norse hey, old frisian ha, middle dutch hoy, german heu, gothic hawi “hay”), literally “that which is cut,” or “that which can be mowed,” from pie -kau- “to hew, strike” (cf. old english heawan “to cut;” see hew). slang phrase hit the hay (pre-1880) was originally “to sleep in a barn;” hay in the general figurative sense of “bedding” (e.g. roll in the hay) is from 1903.
noun

marijuana; herb
related terms

hit the hay, indian hay, that ain’t hay

[narcotics; 1940s+]

properly so called, was not in use among the hebrews; straw was used instead. they cut the gr-ss green as it was needed. the word rendered “hay” in prov. 27:25 means the first shoots of the gr-ss. in isa. 15:6 the revised version has correctly “gr-ss,” where the authorized version has “hay.”

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