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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Grass seed shaken out of hay.
  2. n. Pieces of chaff or straw that fall from hay.
  3. n. Slang A bumpkin; a yokel.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Grass-seed.
  2. n. The redseed, brit, etc., upon which mackerel, menhaden, and other fish largely feed.
  3. n. A countryman; austic.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Seeds from grass that has become hay.
  2. n. Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a rural, unsophisticated person; also used in an extended sense for one who is not very intelligent or uninterested in culture.
  2. n. Seed from grass, especially that which falls out of hay.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

Etymologies

  1. hay +‎ seed (Wiktionary)

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