Hayseed
adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 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
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From hay + seed.
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