gourd

Related to gourd: gourd family

bushel and a peck (and some in a gourd)

A lot. This phrase is typically used to emphasize how much one loves someone else. My darling wife, I love you a bushel and a peck.
See also: and, bushel, peck

like a martin to his/its gourd

dated, colloquial A reference to the purple martin, a type of swallow that often nest in hollowed-out gourds provided by humans. Primarily heard in US.
1. Very fast in a straight line. He stepped in the door and walked over to the bar like a martin to his gourd.
2. Quickly, directly, and intuitively. I wasn't sure Sarah would be cut out for carpentry, but she took to it like a martin to its gourd.
See also: gourd, like, martin

off (one's) gourd

slang Crazy. After yet another sleepless night, I'm starting to feel like I'm off my gourd. He's off his gourd if he thinks this plan is going to work!
See also: gourd, off

out of (one's) gourd

slang Crazy. After yet another sleepless night, I'm starting to feel like I'm out of my gourd. He's out of his gourd if he thinks this plan is going to work!
See also: gourd, of, out

stoned out of (one's) gourd

Severely intoxicated by drugs, especially marijuana. ("Gourd" is a slang term for one's head or mind.) Sorry, I can't remember what we were talking about last night, I was stoned out of my gourd. There's no way I'm letting you drive—you're stoned out of your gourd!
See also: gourd, of, out, stoned
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

out of your gourd

1 out of your mind; crazy. 2 under the influence of alcohol or drugs. North American informal
1 1988 Jay McInerney The Story of My Life After ten minutes I'm bored out of my gourd.
2 1993 Stephen King Gerald's Game I was ‘on medication’ (this is the technical hospital term for ‘stoned out of one's gourd’).
See also: gourd, of, out
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

gourd

(gord)
n. the head. I raised up and got a nasty blow on the gourd.

stoned out of one’s head

and stoned out of one’s gourd
mod. under the effects of marijuana. Tiffany was stoned out of her head and started giggling. That stuff makes me stoned out of my gourd.
See also: head, of, out, stoned

stoned out of one’s gourd

verb
See stoned out of one’s head
See also: gourd, of, out, stoned
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • bushel and a peck
  • bushel and a peck (and some in a gourd)
  • peck
  • (my) right hand to God
  • no fox given
  • up with
  • up with (someone or something)
  • AIIC
  • peck up
  • boom goes the dynamite
References in periodicals archive
Limited financial resources possessed by vegetable growers especially bitter gourd growers create problems to purchase and apply these inputs timely.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS IN BITTER GOURD PRODUCTION
These gourds were used by the Maasai people to collect blood, obtained from their cattle without killing them to consume as a nutritious drink, either on its own or mixed with milk.
A drum roll for African music and culture
Because they are a vine type plant, gourds grow well on fences or garden trellis.
Oh my gourd! Clive Edwards gives advice on growing weird and wonderful vegetables
Put a hole in the top of a small, dried gourd, and place a string through it so it can be tied to the tree.
It's fun to grow the fun vine
Made possible in part by the ease of communicating via the Internet, the survey will enable collaborators to develop a science-based, statistically sound overview of the presence and pollination prowess of squash and gourd bees of the New World.
Perfect pumpkin pollinators the squash bees!
To make a bracelet: use a longer, thinner gourd, such as a snake gourd or the rounded top of a bottle gourd.
Great uses for hard-shelled gourds
This is because once the children saw the swan neck gourds, they instantly thought birds.
More goofy gourds
Soon the farm wagons full of gourds will appear on the right.
Try some agri-tourism: Indiana is well-positioned as more farms are willing to welcome, educate and entertain visitors
Plan designs on paper and transfer to gourd with carbon paper.
Bottle gourd birdhouses: high school
Rind and seeds of a gourd discovered at the Kana site in Papua New Guinea are identified as remains of Benincasa hispida.
Identification of Benincasa hispida (wax gourd) from the Kana archaeological site, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea
An artist was refused permission to board a United Airlines flight on Tuesday (1 July) due to a dried summer gourd in his luggage.
Artist refused entrance to United Airlines flight
"We did some surface collection and found this gourd fragment," Haas says.
The aging of the Staff God. (Upfront)
Archaeological remains suggest the independent use of the bottle gourd Lagenaria siceraria in the Americas by 9,000-15,000BP, in Asia by 6,000-10,000BP and in Africa (its supposed origin) by 4,000-5,000BP.
Kew Archivist, Hew Prendergast, explains the use of the bottle gourd throughout history. (The Uses Of Plants)
A Gourd Dance honored announcer Sammy "Tonekei" White, Kiowa, a U.S.
ALL NATIONS DANCE TOGETHER
He and his wife Barbara are gourd artists whose work has appeared in Better Homes & Gardens.
Artists from the southern California area gathered for "Reflections II," an exhibition of fine art by artists with disabilities