hayseeds

Noun

hayseed (countable and uncountable, plural hayseeds)

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.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter IX, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/IX)
2. Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
3. (countable) A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.

   Synonyms:

   bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker

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