hayseed

English

Etymology

hay +‎ seed

Pronunciation
  • /ˈheɪˌsid/ (GenAm)

Noun

hayseed (countable and uncountable, plural hayseeds)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Seeds from grass that has become hay.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
  3. (countable) A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.

Translations

Adjective

hayseed (comparative more hayseed, superlative most hayseed)

  1. Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater.
    • 1892, John Hay, Letters of John Hay and Extracts From Diary, volume II, page 241:
      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.
    • 1988, Richard Sapir, Quest
      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.
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