hayseed

hayseed
n
1. grass seed, grass, straw, chaff, grain; shuck, huck, shell, hull, pod, bran, wisp, bur.
2.Slang. rustic, peasant, provincial, country cousin, countryman, hobnail; farmer, plowman, plowboy, chuff, swain, gaffer, kern or kerne, son or tiller of the soil, Archaic. hind; yokel, bumpkin, country bumpkin, hawbuck, Dial. lumpkin, Often Disparaging. hillbilly, Disparaging. bogtrotter, Inf. chawbacon, Inf. cider squeezer, Sl. hick, Sl. woodhick, Sl. rube, Sl. hoosier, Fr. Sl. truffe.

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