hay

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
2. (countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
3. (countable, slang, uncountable) Cannabis; marijuana.
4. (countable, uncountable) A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.

Verb

1. To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
2. To lay snares for rabbits.

Synonyms

straw

grass

fodder

dry grass

alfalfa

greens

wild parsley

forage

sleep-tight

sleeping

😴

shut-eye

sleep tight

bud

broccoli

🥦

bar

boom

💥

fiber

boo

bale

feed

eatables

blonde

limbo

fir

flower

🌸

dry

ditch

funk

gage

gangster

block

baby

👶

ding

grata

dew

bed

🛏️

greeter

greta

has

hemp

herb

🌿

homegrown

hooch

kali

kilter

kind

Ghana

🇬🇭

loaf

lobo

charge

Translations

foin

fieno

Heu

heno

hooi

feno

fenc

saman

fenum

σανός

ξηρόχορτο

تِبْن

faenum

forragem

Pronounced as (IPA)

/heɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hey

Inherited from Old English: hīeġ

Cognate with Western Frisian: hea

Cognate with Dutch: hooi

Cognate with German: Heu

Cognate with Norwegian: høy

In summary

From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi, from Proto-Germanic *hawją, from *hawwaną (“to hew, cut down”).
Cognate with West Frisian hea (“hay”), Alemannic German Heuw (“hay”), Cimbrian höobe (“hay”), Dutch hooi (“hay”), German Heu (“hay”), Luxembourgish Hee (“hay”), Mòcheno hei (“hay”), Yiddish היי (hey, “hay”), Danish hø (“hay”), Faroese hoyggj (“hay”), Gutnish hoy (“hay”), Icelandic hey (“hay”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk høy (“hay”), Swedish hö (“hay”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍅𐌹 (hawi, “grass, hay”). More at hew.