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hayseed

[ hey-seed ]

noun

  1. grass seed, especially that shaken out of hay.
  2. small bits of the chaff, straw, etc., of hay.
  3. an unsophisticated person from a rural area; yokel; hick.


hayseed

/ ˈ³ó±ðɪˌ²õ¾±Ë»å /

noun

  1. seeds or fragments of grass or straw
  2. informal.
    a yokel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hayseed1

First recorded in 1570–80; hay + seed
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I, on the other hand, remain a philistine and a hayseed.

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As a result, the gullible hayseeds of Zaks’s River City just have to sort of fall in line behind him.

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“At a certain point you’re going to ask yourself, ‘Why are you in favor of lower taxes and less regulations so they can call us bigots and hayseeds and deplorables and tell lies about us?’â€

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He chose his favored venue of the Aspen Ideas festival, where his transfixing hayseed act has been a perennial marquee attraction.

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The Nonconformist was firmly in the populists’ corner, but 150 miles to the north, Kansas’s leading Republican newspaper derided the reformers as a gang of disgruntled hayseeds.

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