hayseed

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.

Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.

A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.

Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater.

The Corporation of Western Reserve University, with entire unanimity and ombliferous enthusiasm, made you to-day an LL. D. It is no small shakes of a hayseed College, I would have you know.

And when he got his first demand, he shook his head and put a pained expression on his face, and in his most hayseed manner allowed as how things were kind of different now.