'hayseed' definitions:
Definition of 'hayseed'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'hayseed'
From: GCIDE
- hayseed \hay"seed\ n.
- 1. a rural, unsophisticated person; also used in an extended sense for one who is not very intelligent or uninterested in culture.
- Syn: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, bumpkin, chawbacon. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. Seed from grass, especially that which falls out of hay. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'hayseed'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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