hayseed
US/ˈheɪˌsid/
hayseed noun: seeds from grass that has become hay.
Noun
hayseed (countable and uncountable, plural hayseeds)
- Seeds from grass that has become hay.
- I lay and lay, and was doctored and doctored,; until at last I drove the physicians from me, and called in an apothecary from Nicolai who had cured an old woman of a malady similar to my own—cured her merely with a little hayseed.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter IX, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/IX)
- Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
- A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.
- Synonyms:
- bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker
Adjective
hayseed (comparative more hayseed, superlative most hayseed)
- Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater.
- The Corporation of Western Reserve University, with entire unanimity and ombliferous enthusiasm, made you to-day an LL. D. It is no small shakes of a hayseed College, I would have you know.1892, John Hay, Letters of John Hay and Extracts From Diary, volume II, published 1969, page 241
- And when he got his first demand, he shook his head and put a pained expression on his face, and in his most hayseed manner allowed as how things were kind of different now.1988, Richard Sapir, Quest
hayseed meaning in Urdu and Kannada
hayseed in Urdu
- دیہاتی, گھاس کا بیج
hayseed in Kannada
- ಹುಲ್ಲಿನ ಬೀಜ, ಹಳ್ಳಿಯವನು, ಗಾವಿಲ, ರೈತ, ಒಳನಾಡಿನವನು
Synonyms of hayseed
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Forms of hayseed
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hayseeds |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more hayseed |
| superlative | most hayseed |
Origin of hayseed
From hay + seed.
Questions about hayseed
- What does hayseed mean?
- Hayseed means seeds from grass that has become hay.
- What is hayseed in Urdu?
- Hayseed in Urdu is دیہاتی, گھاس کا بیج. See Hayseed meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is hayseed?
- Hayseed can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce hayseed?
- Hayseed is pronounced /ˈheɪˌsid/ (US).
- What is the plural of hayseed?
- The plural of hayseed is hayseeds.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hayseed (page history and authors); hayseed (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hayseed (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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