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hayseed

/hey-seed/US // ˈheɪˌsid //UK // (ˈheɪˌsiːd) //

干草籽,草籽,干草种子,草料

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : grass seed, especially that shaken out of hay.
    • : small bits of the chaff, straw, etc., of hay.
    • : an unsophisticated person from a rural area; yokel; hick.

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Examples

  • "Bully for you, old Hayseed," said the man who had wanted to whip any man in the right wing of the army.

  • "I won't take no slack from no old Wabash hayseed like you," responded the teamster cordially.

  • Then he appears again, in damaged homespun, combs the hayseed out of his hair, and takes a pilot-house berth for the winter.

  • And he said, I dont see why it is those hayseed politicians up in Albany want to come down here and bother us honest men.

  • He was for a while a typical hayseed, an expert reaper, ready to match himself against all comers.