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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  hayseed \hay"seed\ n.
     1. a rural, unsophisticated person; also used in an extended
        sense for one who is not very intelligent or uninterested
        in culture.
  
     Syn: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, bumpkin, chawbacon.


          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. Seed from grass, especially that which falls out of hay.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hayseed
       n : not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: {yokel},
            {rube}, {hick}, {yahoo}, {bumpkin}, {chawbacon}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "hayseed":
     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
  
  

















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