hayseed

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I looked like a hayseed--not the independent countryman who wears old clothes on week days from choice and is proudly conscious of a Sunday suit in the closet--but that other variety, the post-office and billiard-room idler who has reached the point of utter indifference, is too shiftless to care.

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

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  • I could see that the hayseed was suitably impressed by the rigmarole. —  Question Quest
  • The fact that he was a talented securities trader was a bonus Still, he was a securities trader, not a hayseed, and Trudy wondered what he really thought of this reception in the Grange Hall with disposable tablecloths and crepe paper streamers. —  PROLOGUE
  • Wetherby said it was informal, and I expected some kind of hayseed operation, but it was quite classy in spite of all the horsy atmosphere Qwilleran had met Judd Amhurst briefly at Hibbard House one evening, and they had exchanged the fraternal handshake of Squunkers. —  THE CAT WHO WENT BANANAS
  • "And this place is smaller now than the town where I went to high schools" "You are a hayseed, darling I am?" —  Map.html
  • One of his few efforts that can't be considered either the product of Crazy Horse feedback Neil or sensitive-hayseed Neil, —  Pitchfork: Latest News
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