oatsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

oats

1. plural of oat

名詞

oats sg or pl

1. A mass of oat plants (genus Avena, especially Avena sativa).

   Oats are in the north corner of the farm.

   Usually oats is last in a rotation and does not get the fertilizer that other feed grains get.

2. Seeds of an oat plant, especially prepared as food.

   Oats is a heart-healthy breakfast food.

   Oats are good for you.

3. (slang) Sexual intercourse, sexual satisfaction; semen. [from 18th century]

   Synonyms: wild oats, seed; see also Thesaurus:copulation

   • a. 1707, George Farquhar, The Works of George Farquhar, published 1988, page 55:

     Must I beat the Bush while you catch the Game ;
     Sow your wild oates,
     And mind not her wild notes,
     Of Alack &c.
     […]
     [She] bid me fill, fill, fill
     Her Sack &c.
     But twas all in Vaine
     For I had spilt my graine
     With a Thwack, &c.

   • 1945, Robert Close, Love me Sailor, published 1972, page 62:

     “ […] he’s young,” he added excusingly. “And I suppose he’s just feeling his oats a bit.”
     “Well he can save his damned oats up until we get into port—like any other sailor. If I catch him making those sort of passes at any woman who happens to be making a passage with us, Mister Samuals, I’ll disrate him and send him to the fo’c’sle!”

   • 1975, Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition, page 135:

     Now you been foolin’ with your oats, you been messin’ with your hay, you say, “If you take me back, baby, I’ll do it the other way.”

使用する際の注意点

For millennia, oats were wrongly believed to be a degenerate form of another grain. This contempt may underlie Samuel Johnson's infamous definition in his 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language

同意語

• haver

下位語

等位語

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

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アナグラム

• ASOT, Tsao, taos, SOTA, Sota, OTAs, toas, Taos, ATOs, stoa, tosa, as to, oast, Sato