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oat
[ oht ]
noun
- a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- Usually oats. (used with a singular or plural verb) the seed of this plant, used as a food for humans and animals.
- any of several plants of the same genus, as the wild oat.
- Archaic. a musical pipe made of an oat straw.
oat
/ əʊt /
noun
- an erect annual grass, Avena sativa, grown in temperate regions for its edible seed
- usually plural the seeds or fruits of this grass
- any of various other grasses of the genus Avena, such as the wild oat
- poetic.a flute made from an oat straw
- feel one's oats informal.
- to feel exuberant
- to feel self-important
- get one's oats slang.to have sexual intercourse
- sow one's oats or sow one's wild oatsto indulge in adventure or promiscuity during youth
Other Words From
- oatlike adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of oat1
Word History and Origins
Origin of oat1
Idioms and Phrases
- feel one's oats, Informal.
- to feel frisky or lively.
- to be aware of and use one's importance or power.
- sow one's wild oats. wild oat ( def 3 ).
Example Sentences
This year’s jankiest ad came from Oatly, a company that is very good at making oat milk and very bad at making commercials.
Just like this mushroom oat risotto, it’s great for lunch or dinner, too.
A quarter-cup serving of oat flour has a similar nutritional profile to all-purpose flour.
Elliott Prag, lead chef at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City, explains that oat flour absorbs more liquid than other flours, which makes for drier, denser baked goods.
When you pack the bag, oat shavings will fly around the kitchen, and that’s OK.
She is positively brisk in hustling for apples in the orchard and for heads of oats around the oat stack.
Little did he think that that middling oat-bearing land was being minded and brooded upon.
Through the tent flap I have an excellent view of the haystacks and the stack of oat sheaves.
Meal dus' in my th'oat, grit in my eye, en I aint kin git my breff, skacely.
He halted upon a knoll in the oat-field, and stood to breathe the cool air from the low-lying meadow.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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