hayseed

/ˈheɪˌsid/
noun
  1. A person from the countryside who is considered unsophisticated or naive; a rustic or yokel.
    • He may look like a hayseed in his overalls, but he's actually a brilliant engineer.
    • The city kids laughed at the hayseed who had never seen an escalator before.
    • The movie made fun of the hayseed tourist who kept asking where the cows were.
  2. Seeds that fall from hay, often found in barns or fields.
    • The farmer collected the hayseed to use as feed for the chickens.
    • After stacking the bales, we swept up the hayseed scattered on the barn floor.
    • A handful of hayseed spilled from the bale onto the truck bed.
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