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Hayseed

//ˈheɪˌsid// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective

1
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."

Noun

1
Seeds from grass that has become hay. countable, uncountable
"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."
2
a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture wordnet
3
Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc. countable, uncountable
4
A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin. countable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From hay + seed.

Etymology 2

From hay + seed.

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