单词 | hayseed |
释义 | hayseedn. 1. a. The grass seed shaken out of hay. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > part of > grass-seed(s) kernelc1230 chess1562 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). ΚΠ 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. Categories » 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. ΘΚΠ 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 chuffc1440 mobarda1450 lob1533 lobcocka1556 clown1565 hick1565 bumpkin1570 swad1572 peasant1576 hob-clunch1578 hoblob1582 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). < n.1577 |
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