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Hayed vs Hayey - What's the difference?

hayed | hayey |

As a verb hayed

is (hay).

As an adjective hayey is

resembling or smelling or tasting like hay.

hayed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (hay)

    • Anagrams

    *

    hay

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
  • * Camden
    • Make hay while the sun shines.
  • * C. L. Flint
    • Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.
  • (countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
  • (slang) Cannabis; marijuana.
  • * 1947 , William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947:
    • I would like some of that hay . Enclose $20.
  • A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
    • (Rowe)
  • (obsolete) A hedge.
  • (obsolete) A circular country dance.
    • to dance the hay
    Derived terms
    * hay fever * hayloft, hay loft * haystack * hayward * hit the hay * make hay while the sun shines
    External links
    * (wikipedia)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
  • To lay snares for rabbits.
    • (Huloet)

    Related terms

    * bale * straw

    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? .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The name of the letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand.
    • Related terms
    * aitch, the name of the Latin letter for this sound

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    hayey

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Resembling or smelling or tasting like hay.
  • * 1871 , Curtis Guild, Over the ocean: or, Sights and scenes in foreign lands , page 31: [http://books.google.com.ua/books?id=LUYyAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA31]
    • That inevitable pork fat that flavors everything after one gets west of Buffalo, and a little off the line of travel that leads you through the great hotels in the great cities in America, — that saleratus bread, hayey tea, clammy pie-crust, ...
  • *1995 , William Michael Murphy, Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives , page 72: [http://books.google.com.ua/books?id=zvN3LD-ZjioC&pg=PA72]
  • *:"I am sure it is a year since I ate one before," Lollie wrote, "but in spite of a hayey flavor I liked it"
  • * 1995 , Rachna Gilmore, A Friend Like Zilla , page 10: [http://books.google.com.ua/books?id=LQ40zJD5Z1UC&pg=PA10]
    • It looked all dim and hayey inside. My stomach tingled. Please let there be kids at the farm, someone my age. I just had to play in that barn. I'd read about kids swinging in haylofts, but I'd never done fun stuff like that.

    Synonyms

    * haylike