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hayseed
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hayseed is a derogatory term for a yokel , an unsophisticated individual from the countryside. The term may also refer to: Hayseed (album) , a 2013 contemporary folk music album by Susan Werner The Hayseed , a 1919 film by Fatty Arbuckle
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s in the literal sense of "grass seed shaken out of hay," from hay + seed (n.). In U.S. slang sense of "comical rustic" it dates from 1875. To have hayseed in (one's) hair was a common mid-19c. way in U.S. to indicate a country person.\n\nThe opinion ...
Usage examples of hayseed.
Little men with big names, appalled at the idea that their beloved Rome had been saved by a despised New Manan Italian hayseed with no Greek, as Metellus Numidicus Piggle-wiggle had put it many years before.
It was bloody hard to remember always to speak properly when Eppie Dawson and everyone else you knew talked like hayseeds.
There was a screen showing a succession of faces and scenes that had somehow gotten out of sync with the commentary, so a picture of the great Willie Nelson was identified as someone called Cornpone Cawson, the Hayseed Hick.
If he stumbled twice in a row, even the dumb-ass hayseed plowboys who pulled guard duty at Twin Towers might get suspicious.
Oldfellow gawped at London, gumchewing kid as dumb Hamnet holding his dad's paw, and gave it slow hayseed (Cedar Rapids, he had said) greeting.
You tell me this little maw-worm has led a bunch of farmers and hayseeds against Stephen's crack troops?
Hayseed farmers, asteroid miners and chronic drug abusers have seen Unidentified Flying Objects and little guys who want to see our leaders.