Noun: oats
Sample Sentences
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Oats are in the north corner of the farm.
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Usually oats is last in a rotation and does not get the fertilizer that other feed grains get.
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Oats is a heart-healthy breakfast food.
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Oats are good for you.
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Must I beat the Bush while you catch the Game ;
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Sow your wild oates,
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And mind not her wild notes,
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Of Alack &c.
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[…]
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[She] bid me fill, fill, fill
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Her Sack &c.
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But twas all in Vaine
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For I had spilt my graine
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With a Thwack, &c. [a. 1707, George Farquhar, The Works of George Farquhar, published 1988, page 55:]
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“[…]he’s young,” he added excusingly. “And I suppose he’s just feeling his oats a bit.”
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“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!” [1945, Robert Close, Love me Sailor, published 1972, page 62:]
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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.” [1975, Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition, page 135:]
Nouns inflected like oats
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Verbs referencing "oats"
Faroese Nouns
eitil.