Dictionary

hayseed en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈheɪˌsid/ (General-American)

Etymology

From hay + seed.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater.
   • And when he got his first demand, he shook his head and put a pained expression on his face, and in his most hayseed manner allowed as how things were kind of different now. 1988, Richard Sapir, Quest:
   • The Corporation of Western Reserve University, with entire unanimity and ombliferous enthusiasm, made you to-day an LL. D. It is no small shakes of a hayseed College, I would have you know. 1892, John Hay, Letters of John Hay and Extracts From Diary, volume II, published 1969, page 241:

Forms

hayseed en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈheɪˌsid/ (General-American)

Etymology

From hay + seed.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Seeds from grass that has become hay.
   • I lay and lay, and was doctored and doctored,; until at last I drove the physicians from me, and called in an apothecary from Nicolai who had cured an old woman of a malady similar to my own—cured her merely with a little hayseed. 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter IX, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/IX):
2. (countable, uncountable) Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
3. (countable) A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.

Forms

Synonyms

hick · lob · boor · bydlo · carl · bogtrotter · hob · country cousin · honyock · rube · woolly back · churl · hunk · hayseed · bucolic · rustic · culchie · hog-rubber · cornhusker · hobnail · promdi · yokel · provincial · clodhopper · joskin · bogger · country bumpkin · dubbo · corncob

Translations (6)

fi heinänsiemen (cruft) · la petrō (rustic person) · pdt Dommabua (rustic person) · ga pór féir (seeds) · fi heinänsiemen (seeds) · fi heinähattu (rustic person)