hayseed
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hayseed
- /ˈheɪˌsid/ US
Where it comes from
From hay + seed.
noun hayseeds
- Seeds from grass that has become hay. I lay and lay, and was doctored and doctored,; until at last I drove the physicians from me, and called in an apothecary from Nicolai who had cured an old woman of a malady similar to my own—cured her merely with a little hayseed.
- Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
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A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.
Similar: bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin
adjective more hayseed · most hayseed
- Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater. The Corporation of Western Reserve University, with entire unanimity and ombliferous enthusiasm, made you to-day an LL. D. It is no small shakes of a hayseed College, I would have you know.
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title = {hayseed},
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