hayseed

Plural: hayseeds

Noun

• A rustic or unsophisticated person from the countryside; a bumpkin.
• a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
• Seeds from grass that has become hay.
• Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
• A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.

Adj

• Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater.

Examples

• He played a simple word, a HAYSEED move, but it opened up the board nicely.

Synonyms

bumpkin, chawbacon, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel, bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, carl, churl, clodhopper, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin, culchie, dubbo, hayseed, hillbilly, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hunk, joskin, lob, promdi, provincial, redneck, rustic, woolly back