hayseed

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
2. 2

   Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.

3. 3

   A rustic person

   A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.

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   1. 4

      Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person)

      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.
      • 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.

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