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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Grass seed shaken out of hay.
  • noun Pieces of chaff or straw that fall from hay.
  • noun Informal An unsophisticated person from a rural area; a bumpkin.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Grass-seed.
  • noun The redseed, brit, etc., upon which mackerel, menhaden, and other fish largely feed.
  • noun A countryman; austic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a rural, unsophisticated person; also used in an extended sense for one who is not very intelligent or uninterested in culture.
  • noun Seed from grass, especially that which falls out of hay.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Seeds from grass that has become hay.
  • noun Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

Etymologies

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hay +‎ seed

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