Hay vs Hallo - What's the difference?
hay | hallo |
(uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
* Camden
* C. L. Flint
(countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
(slang) Cannabis; marijuana.
* 1947 , William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947:
A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
(obsolete) A hedge.
(obsolete) A circular country dance.
To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
To lay snares for rabbits.
A variant of hello
A cry of surprise.
* 1890 , ,
To shout, or to call with a loud voice.
To chase while shouting "hallo!"
To cry "hallo" (to someone).
To shout (something).
As nouns the difference between hay and hallo
is that hay is grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder while hallo is the cry "hallo!.As verbs the difference between hay and hallo
is that hay is to cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder while hallo is to shout, or to call with a loud voice.As an interjection hallo is
a variant of hellohay
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
- Make hay while the sun shines.
- Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.
- I would like some of that hay . Enclose $20.
- (Rowe)
- to dance the hay
Derived terms
* hay fever * hayloft, hay loft * haystack * hayward * hit the hay * make hay while the sun shinesExternal links
* (wikipedia)Verb
(en verb)- (Huloet)
References
Webster's Online Dictionary article on hay
Etymology 2
: From the sound it represents, by analogy with other letters such as kay'' and ''gay''. The expected form in English if the ''h'' had survived in the Latin name of the letter "h", ''h? .Anagrams
* * * ----hallo
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- It sounds like a sum in the rule of three. The answer should give us the — But hallo ! here are the accredited representatives of the law.