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.
Source: wiktionary
Hayseed
//ˈheɪˌsid//
Synonyms for "hayseed" (98 found)
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Translations
6 translations across 4 languages.
Finnish
3 entries- heinähattu noun (rustic person)
- heinänsiemen noun (seeds)
- heinänsiemen noun (cruft)
Irish
1 entries- pór féir noun (seeds)
Latin
1 entries- petrō noun (rustic person)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Dommabua noun (rustic person)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
And when he got his first demand, he shook his head and put a pained expression on his face, and in his most hayseed manner allowed as how things were kind of different now.
Source: wiktionary
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