hayseed
Collocations
4ADJ.
most
VERB + HAYSEED
shakes
HAYSEED + NOUN
college
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
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.
adj
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.
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3I 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
WiktionaryThe 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.
WiktionaryAnd 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.
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