English

Noun

gape seed ‎(plural gape seeds)

1. Something to be gaped at, a strange sight; typically used in phrases such as to buy, sow etc. gape seed, describing people who merely stand and stare instead of transacting business.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.9:

     justice hath also knowledge and animadversion over such as gather stubble (as the common saying is) or looke about for gape-seed.