Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The celebration of May Day, especially by the gathering of spring flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The observance of May-day, and the sports and games indulged in on that occasion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The celebrating of May Day.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The celebrations traditionally held to celebrate
May Day .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The company gathered as blithely as if they were going maying, and certainly so bright a morning invited to so pleasant a pastime.
His Disposition 2010
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Nice to see the Obama campaign maying attention to MO again.
Planned Parenthood Ad Blasts Palin For Rape-Kit Policies 2009
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Of the girls who went "a-maying," Stubbs in his 1585 Anatomie of Abuses says, "scarcely a thirde parte of them returned home againe undefiled."
Bel's Fire and Little Green Men Joanna Waugh 2009
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Of the girls who went "a-maying," Stubbs in his 1585 Anatomie of Abuses says, "scarcely a thirde parte of them returned home againe undefiled."
Archive 2009-05-01 Joanna Waugh 2009
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He goes well beyond maying a prediction based on past data.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton touted family planning programs during her husband's administration for a steady decrease in the teen birth rate, adding, "Under President Bush's leadership, we maying falling off track."
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What's so maying about the people of this church, including Tim, his wife, Natalie -- got to go through the list of the great kids we have here.
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The backwater wackos are easier to understand- but the show maybe made me understand just a tiny bit why Boss Woman would let her husband maying try another.
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“In and out and round about, a-maying, a-maying ....”
Between the Acts 2004
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His wife comely as a girl, hair down and beribboned, partlet lost—as if out maying.
Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002
treeseed commented on the word maying
American Heritage Dictionary:
n. The celebration of May Day, especially by the gathering of spring flowers.
January 26, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word maying
(noun) - To go very early in the morning of the first of May into the fields or woods and gather green boughs to decorate people's houses. East Sussex.
--William Holloway's Dictionary of Provincialisms, 1838
January 14, 2018