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ˈhay-seed, ˈhayseed
[f. hay n.1]
1. a. The grass seed shaken out of hay.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 44 b, Some doo cast Hey seede, geathered from the Heyloaft or the racks, over the grounde. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 350 With rye grass and clovers..and what are termed hay seeds, a permanent pasture of the best quality..cannot be made. Note. Hay seeds consist of the sweepings of hay-lofts, or the seeds and chaff obtained from hay.
b. fig. (cf. sense 3).
1894W. C. Russell Good Ship Mohock I. 43 They were fresh from a rural parish; the hayseed smelt strongly in their hair, as the sailor says.
2. The redseed, brit, etc., on which mackerel and other fish largely feed. U.S. (Cent. Dict.)
3. Humorous name for a rustic. N. Amer., Austral., and N.Z.
1851H. Melville Moby Dick I. vi. 52 Ah, poor Hay-Seed! how bitterly will burst those straps in the first howling gale! 1883Prince Albert Times (Sask.) 28 Dec. 3/1 Where the hay seeds may work at their farming. 1889Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 29 Apr. 2/2 To send a glimmer of returning reason through the mind of the frontier hay⁓seed. 1891Harper's Weekly 19 Sept. 705/3 Dickey thought it a base presumption for an ‘old hayseed’ to try to enter the town's society. 1896Daily News 9 July 4/2 His ‘hay seed’ following sent him to the U.S. Senate. 1901Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 11 Oct. 4/2 It is the habit of the comic journals to print pictures about the ‘hay⁓seeds’ who are gulled by confidence men. 1916C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke 117 'Ayseed (Hayseed), a rustic. 1965F. Sargeson Memoirs of Peon ix. 271 He might be identified as either peasant or hayseed. Ibid., Exhibiting something of the hayseed character which he lacked. |