hayseed
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9.8
- noun
- /ˈheɪˌsiːd/
- Offensive
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- The people from the city viewed her as a hayseed because of her innocent perspective on life.
- a bunch of hayseeds
- hayseed hick
- an old hayseed
Examples
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The last thing she wants is to get stuck out in the middle of nowhere, to have to deal with some hayseed local mechanic who might tell them it's too late to work on the car, assuming he actually does know how to fix it.
Fiction book (2001) -
After moving to the city, he was often teased as a hayseed for his rural accent and simple ways.
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You stay around here and turn hayseed and I'll head back to Manhattan.
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Few things disarm a city cop more quickly than a hayseed accent.
Fiction book (1994) -
I looked at him to see this hayseed, this castaway in Manhattan, exactly as I'd once been when I arrived, the sugar beet and potato fields forgotten, with one week's rent paid down, but nothing saved.
Fiction book (2000) -
Compared with the police, the Emergency Medical Service men were rumpled hayseeds, but the metallic interior of their ambulance was antiseptic and orderly.
Academic text (1998) -
The last of the music, frayed tones from a hayseed country station, had miles back degenerated into a storm of static, and now the only noises were the car's undulations over the primitive road and the occasional sigh of my sleeping companion.
Fiction book (2000) -
They jokingly called him a hayseed because he wore overalls and didn’t know how to use a smartphone.
Synonyms
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9.6
A person from the countryside who seems simple and old-fashioned
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9.9
A person from the countryside who is not used to city life
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9.6
A person from the countryside who seems uneducated or unaware of city ways
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8.9
A person from the countryside who seems not used to city life
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8.9
A loud rude person who behaves without manners
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8.2
A person from the countryside who is inexperienced with city life
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9.9
A person from the countryside who seems rude or not modern
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6.3
A person from the countryside who seems simple and not used to city life
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9.9
A person who seems unsophisticated in dress or behaviour, often from working-class suburbs
A person from the country who is rough, clumsy, and simple
Antonyms
How Unsophisticated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hayseed combines the simple words hay and seed, giving the image of a person who comes from the fields, like a seed from the hay. So hayseed is used to mean an unsophisticated or 'country' person.