Hayseed

Quick meaning: Hayseed is a noun meaning (countable, uncountable) Seeds from grass that has become hay.

Meaning

(countable, uncountable) Seeds from grass that has become hay.

More Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
2. (countable) A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.
3. Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• hayseeds

Synonyms for hayseed

Depending on context, synonyms include bogger, bogtrotter, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include yokel, hick, rube, bumpkin, chawbacon, yahoo.

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