hayseed means characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 76 out of 100.
hayseed is pronounced /ˈheɪˌsid/.
Etymology
From hay + seed.
adj
- 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.”
noun
- 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.”
- Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
- A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.