What is "gapeseed"

Usage examples of "gapeseed".

Midsummer-manifold, each one Voluminous, a labyrinth of life, They keep their greenest musings, and the dim dreams That haunt their leafier privacies, Dissembled, baffling the random gapeseed still With blank full-faces, or the innocent guile Of laughter flickering back from shine to shade, And disappearances of homing birds, And frolicsome freaks Of little boughs that frisk with little boughs.

What a gapeseed the man was, thought Selena, to suppose she might be won over by an insult!

Pru almost shouted, lest Ware think her some country gapeseed, which she was, of course.

They thought her a gapeseed, an unmannered bumpkin born in a cabbage patch.

The Captain, having learnt enough, did not linger in the Blue Boar, but paid his shot, and slouched off, leaving the landlord to explain to Coate that if he desired to enlist the services of a constable he must ride to Tideswella piece of intelligence which provoked him to break into a fury of objurgation, and a declaration that he would be damned if he would put himself to so much trouble only to seek out some gapeseed who, he dared swear, would be of no more use than a month-old baby.

I suppose I deserve a beargarden jaw for being such a gapeseed about Benedict Nesbitt.

Because no sooner did those gapeseeds know that Amanda had given me the bag than they began to think there was something havey-cavey going on.

If you want to go on jolting over a devilish bad road, asking questions at every pike of a set of gapeseeds who wouldn't be able to tell you whether Cinderella had driven by in a dashed great pumpkin, let alone Trix in a chaise, you do it!