Define the word hayseed"hayseed" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
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]
"hayseed" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
hayseed
n : not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel,
rube, hick, yahoo, bumpkin, chawbacon]
"hayseed" moby-thes "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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