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English
Etymology
hay + seed
Pronunciation
Noun
hayseed (countable and uncountable, plural hayseeds)
- (countable, uncountable) Seeds from grass that has become hay.
- (countable, uncountable) Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
- (countable) A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.
Translations
Adjective
hayseed (comparative more hayseed, superlative most hayseed)
- Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater.
1892, John Hay, Letters of John Hay and Extracts From Diary, volume II, published 1969, 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.