hayseed
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hay·seed
(hā′sēd′)n.
1. Grass seed shaken out of hay.
2. Pieces of chaff or straw that fall from hay.
3. Informal An unsophisticated person from a rural area; a bumpkin.
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hayseed
(ˈheɪˌsiːd)n
1. (Agriculture) seeds or fragments of grass or straw
2. informal derogatory US and Canadian a yokel
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hay•seed
(ˈheɪˌsid)n.
1. grass seed, esp. that shaken out of hay.
2. small bits of the chaff, straw, etc., of hay.
3. an unsophisticated person from a rural area; yokel; hick.
[1570–80]
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[ˈheɪsiːd] N (US) → palurdo/a m/f, paleto/a m/f (Sp)Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005