hayseed

Definitions

1. Seeds from grass that has become hay.
   countable, uncountable
2. Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
   countable, uncountable
3. A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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