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Hayseed   Listen
noun
hayseed  n.  
1.
A rural, unsophisticated person; also used in an extended sense for one who is not very intelligent or uninterested in culture.
Synonyms: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, bumpkin, chawbacon.
2.
Seed from grass, especially that which falls out of hay.





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"Hayseed" Quotes from Famous Books



... you've made yourself look like a hayseed juggins. For Heaven's sake, take it off. By the way, ...
— The Exploits of Juve - Being the Second of the Series of the "Fantmas" Detective Tales • mile Souvestre and Marcel Allain
... allwool garments with Harris tweed cap, price 8/6, and useful garden boots with elastic gussets and wateringcan, planting aligned young firtrees, syringing, pruning, staking, sowing hayseed, trundling a weedladen wheelbarrow without excessive fatigue at sunset amid the scent of newmown hay, ameliorating the ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... of external opththalmia are mainly those that act locally—blows with whips, clubs, and twigs, the presence of foreign bodies, like hayseed, chaff, dust, lime, sand, snuff, pollen of plants, flies attracted by the brilliancy of the eye, wounds of the bridle, the migration of the scabies (mange) insect into the eye, smoke, ammonia arising from the excretions, irritant emanations from drying marshes, etc. Road dust containing infecting ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture


Words linked to "Hayseed" :   rube, rustic, yokel, hick, yahoo, chawbacon, bumpkin


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