HAYSEED - 5 definitions found
hayseed n 1: a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) hayseed noun (plural hayseed or hayseeds) Date: 1577 1. a. seed shattered from hay b. clinging bits of straw or chaff from hay 2. plural hayseeds bumpkin, yokel Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary hayseed ˈheɪsi:d n. 1 grass seed obtained from hay. 2 US colloq. a rustic or yokel. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 57 Moby Thesaurus words for "hayseed": acorn, berry, bird seed, boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clown, clownish, countrified, country bumpkin, country-born, country-bred, farmer, farmerish, flaxseed, from the sticks, fruit, gawk, gawky, grain, hick, hicky, hillbilly, hobnailed, inurbane, kernel, linseed, looby, lout, loutish, lubber, lummox, lumpen, lumpish, nut, oaf, pip, pit, provincial, rube, rustic, seed, stone, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, up-country, yokel, yokelish |
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