Crossword clues for hayseed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hayseed \hay"seed\ n.
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a rural, unsophisticated person; also used in an extended sense for one who is not very intelligent or uninterested in culture.
Syn: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, bumpkin, chawbacon.
Seed from grass, especially that which falls out of hay.
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 of the court was delivered by Justice Hunt; the chief justice, in whose hair the Ohio hayseed still lingers, delivering a dissenting opinion (etc.)
["The Chronicle," New York, Nov. 12, 1874]
Wiktionary
n. 1 seeds from grass that has become hay. 2 cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc. 3 ''(only countable)'' A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin. [Also used attributively: e.g. a ''hayseed'' name.]
WordNet
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
Hayseed is the twelfth album and ninth studio by American singer-songwriter Susan Werner, and was released in 2013 (see 2013 in music). The project was commissioned by the University of Nebraska's Lied Center for Performing Arts. The album is a concept album about people and lifestyles in farm towns in rural America, with songs inspired by local characters.
Werner, an Iowa native from a farming family, has taken a strong interest in promoting local and sustainable agriculture, themes which are dealt with on the album in songs such as "Herbicides" about herbicides and marriage equality and "Snowmobiles" about global warming. The album was initially funded through PledgeMusic, with ten percent of donations earmarked for Practical Farmers of Iowa, the Midwest Organic and Sustainability Education Service (in Spring Valley, Wisconsin), and The Land Institute. Before and after the album's official release, Werner began touring the country in a series of shows called "The Hayseed Project", in which she purchases, samples, and gives away local produce before or during her shows.
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.