Pronounced: LAM-bunt, adj
Notes: A word I don’t know
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The word gapeseed means
- one who stares especially with an open mouth
- something that is an object of staring; anything unusual
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
Our word is a combination of gape, which comes from the Old Norse word gapa (to open the mouth; stare) and seed, which comes from the Old English word saed (seed). The idiom that the word comes from is “to sow gapeseed”, which means to stare at something (for example, a fair) instead of doing one’s word (such as sowing seed).
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