haybag

See also: hay bag

English

Etymology

hay + bag

Noun

haybag (plural haybags)

  1. Alternative form of hay bag (bag filled with hay)
    • 1998, Robert A. Mischka, It's Showtime!: A Beginner's Guide to Showing Draft Horses, Mischka Press/Heart Prairie, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:
      If your horses are being kept in slip stalls you will find it convenient to feed their hay in haybags.
  2. (slang, derogatory) Alternative form of hay bag (a woman)
    • 2015, E. C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott, Helena Huntington Smith, We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher (page 78)
      The only women in the town were the storekeeper's wife, and a fat old haybag who had been scalped by Indians at the mouth of the Musselshell a few years before, and was laying up with the barber.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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