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hayseed

this tends to be used more of a man than of a woman, although it is not in itself gender-specific. Along with such words as "bumpkin," "clod/clodhopper," and "plow jockey," it is pejorative and anti-farmer. More sex-neutral and less pejorative terms include: country cousin, rustic, tiller of the soil, provincial.


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