hayseed

Meanings

Plural: hayseeds

Noun

• a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
• Seeds from grass that has become hay.
• Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
• A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.

Adj

• Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater.

Synonyms

bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bumpkin, bydlo, carl, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin, culchie, dubbo, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hunk, joskin, lob, promdi, provincial, redneck, rube, rustic, woolly back, yahoo, yokel