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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural hayseed or hayseeds) Date: 1577 1. a. seed shattered from hay b. clinging bits of straw or chaff from hay 2. plural hayseeds bumpkin, yokel

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 grass seed obtained from hay. 2 US colloq. a rustic or yokel.

Moby Thesaurus

acorn, berry, bird seed, boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clown, clownish, countrified, country bumpkin, country-born, country-bred, farmer, farmerish, flaxseed, from the sticks, fruit, gawk, gawky, grain, hick, hicky, hillbilly, hobnailed, inurbane, kernel, linseed, looby, lout, loutish, lubber, lummox, lumpen, lumpish, nut, oaf, pip, pit, provincial, rube, rustic, seed, stone, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, up-country, yokel, yokelish