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单词 hayseed
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hayseedn.

Etymology: < hay n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhay-seed.
1.
a. The grass seed shaken out of hay.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > part of > grass-seed(s)
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hayseed1577
vernal1784
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 44v Some doo cast Hey seede, geathered from the Heyloaft or the racks, ouer the grounde.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 219 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. figurative (cf. sense 3).
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1894 W. 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.
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2. The redseed, brit, etc., on which mackerel and other fish largely feed. U.S. ( Cent. Dict.)
3. Humorous name for a rustic. North American, Australian, and New Zealand.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant
tillman940
churla1000
ploughman1223
bondmanc1250
bondc1275
ploughswain1296
countrymanc1300
boundec1320
Hobc1325
charla1400
landmana1400
Jack (John) Upland1402
carlc1405
bowerc1430
peasanta1450
rurala1475
agrest1480
bergier1480
carlleina1500
rustical?1532
ploughboy1544
boor1548
rusticc1550
kern1556
tillsman1561
clown1563
Jocka1568
Jock upalanda1568
John Uponlanda1568
russet coat1568
rustican1570
hind?1577
swain1579
Corydon1581
mountain man1587
Phillis1589
sylvan1589
russeting1597
Joan1598
stubble boy1598
paysan1609
carlota1616
swainling1615
raiyat1625
contadino1630
under-swaina1644
high shoe1647
boorinn1649
Bonhomme1660
high-shoon-man1664
countrywoman1679
villan1685
russet gown1694
ruralist1739
paysanne1748
bauer1799
bonderman1804
bodach1830
contadina1835
agrestian1837
peasantess1841
country jake1845
rufus1846
bonder1848
hayseed1851
bucolic1862
agricole1882
country jay1888
child (son, etc.) of the soil1891
hillbilly1900
palouser1903
kisan1935
woop woop1936
swede-basher1943
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > rude or ignorant
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mobarda1450
lob1533
lobcocka1556
clown1565
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hob-clunch1578
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clubhutchen1584
bacon1598
boor1598
hobbinol1600
homespun1600
loblolly lamb1600
lob-coat1604
loblolly1604
hobnail1645
champkina1652
bacon-slicer1653
jobson1660
hob-thrush1682
country put1688
put1688
country cousin1692
clodhopper1699
hawbuck1787
Johnny Raw1803
joskin1811
yokel1819
whopstraw1821
chaw-bacon1822
lobeline1844
country jake1845
Hoosier1846
hayseed1851
Reuben1855
scissorbill1876
agricole1882
country jay1888
rube1891
jasper1896
farmer1903
stump jumper1936
woop woop1936
potato head1948
no-neck1961
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick vi. 36 Ah, poor Hay-Seed! how bitterly will burst those straps in the first howling gale!
1883 Prince Albert Times (Sask.) 28 Dec. 3/1 Where the hay seeds may work at their farming.
1889 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 29 Apr. 2/2 To send a glimmer of returning reason through the mind of the frontier hay~seed.
1891 Harper's Weekly 19 Sept. 705/3 Dickey thought it a base presumption for an ‘old hayseed’ to try to enter the town's society.
1896 Daily News 9 July 4/2 His ‘hay seed’ following sent him to the U.S. Senate.
1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 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.
1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) 117 'Ayseed (Hayseed), a rustic.
1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon ix. 271 He might be identified as either peasant or hayseed.
1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon ix. 271 Exhibiting something of the hayseed character which he lacked.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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