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Hayseed   Listen
noun
hayseed  n.  
1.
A rural, unsophisticated person; also used in an extended sense for one who is not very intelligent or uninterested in culture.
Synonyms: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, bumpkin, chawbacon.
2.
Seed from grass, especially that which falls out of hay.





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"Hayseed" Quotes from Famous Books



... words were a blow. That one word "hayseed" with all that it meant to him—to be thrown at him now, tauntingly, before the whole class! His face grew white beneath the remaining coat of tan, and he stepped up to the big senior with a swiftness of which no one ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge


Words linked to "Hayseed" :   yokel, bumpkin, hick, chawbacon, rustic, yahoo


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