hayseed

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英 ['he?si?d] 美['he,sid]

hayseed (n.): also hay-seed, 1570s, "grass seed shaken out of hay," from hay + seed (n.). In U.S. slang sense of "comical rustic" it dates from 1875. To have hayseed in (one's) hair was a common mid-19c. way in U.S. to indicate a country person.
The opinion of the court was delivered by Justice Hunt; the chief justice, in whose hair the Ohio hayseed still lingers, delivering a dissenting opinion (etc.) ["The Chronicle," New York, Nov. 12, 1874]

1. Once the hero of Jefferson , the virtuous husbandman, he was the rube, the hick, the hayseed.: 一度被杰斐遜奉為英雄的農(nóng)民, 昔日儼然是男子漢大丈夫,而今卻一落千丈,成了鄉(xiāng)下人、莊稼漢、鄉(xiāng)巴佬.

2. Most farmer have a stereo type hayseed image.: 大部分農(nóng)民都有一副固定的鄉(xiāng)巴佬形象.