hayseed

hay·seed

noun \ˈhā-ˌsēd\

plural hayseed or hayseeds

Definition of HAYSEED

1

a : seed shattered from hay b : clinging bits of straw or chaff from hay

2

plural hayseeds : bumpkin, yokel

Examples of HAYSEED

1. <though educated and sophisticated, the country singer always put on the facade of an amiable hayseed when in public>

First Known Use of HAYSEED

1577

Related to HAYSEED

Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, cornball, countryman, hick, hillbilly, provincial, rube, rustic, yokel

Antonyms: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate

Related Words: boor, clod, clown, gawk, lout, oaf; greenhorn, tenderfoot; peasant, peon; backwoodsman, mountaineer

Near Antonyms: slicker, smoothy (or smoothie); metropolitan, suburbanite, urbanite

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Other Agriculture/Gardening Terms

fallow, graft, heirloom, loam, potash, soilage, swath, tilth, windfall

Rhymes with HAYSEED

accede, airspeed, bindweed, birdseed, blueweed, bourride, breast-feed, bur reed, burweed, cheerlead, chickweed, concede, crossbreed, cudweed, debride, degreed, duckweed, exceed, fairlead, fern seed, fireweed, flaxseed, force-feed, free reed, Godspeed, ground speed, gulfweed, half-breed, hand-feed, hawkweed, high-speed, horseweed, impede, implead, inbreed, indeed, ironweed, Jamshid, jetbead, knapweed, knotweed, linseed, lip-read, milkweed, misdeed, mislead, misread, moonseed, nosebleed, off-speed, oilseed, pigweed, pinweed, pokeweed, pondweed, precede, proceed, proofread, ragweed, rapeseed, recede, reseed, rockweed, seaweed, secede, self-feed, Siegfried, sight-read, silkweed, smartweed, snakeweed, sneezeweed, speed-read, spoon-feed, stall-feed, stampede, stickseed, stickweed, stinkweed, succeed, ten-speed, tickseed, warp speed, weak-kneed, witchweed, wormseed