Definitions for hayseed

hayseed hay·seed

Spelling: [hey-seed]
IPA: /ˈheɪˌsid/

Hayseed is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in hayseed (adeehsy).

Definitions for hayseed

noun

  1. grass seed, especially that shaken out of hay.
  2. small bits of the chaff, straw, etc., of hay.
  3. an unsophisticated person from a rural area; yokel; hick.

Origin of hayseed

First recorded in 1570-80; hay + seed

Examples for hayseed

They think I'm a hayseed and won't have nothin' to do with me.

I allow you to—er—ornament my tree, and 'tain't every hayseed I'd let do that.'

Only a word now an' then about a farmer—an' somethin' about hayseed.

Grass don't grow down, and go where you will, you'll find the hayseed at the top.

“Damned if I will––hayseed,” he retorted with a meaning pause and accent.

There was no hayseed in his brain; there were no flies on his intellect.

We did not care for sight-seeing, and the pastimes of the hayseed mind.

He lives on hayseed,—everywhere he's found, But in the country he does most abound.

An' no jollyin' nor green money would change that hayseed's mind.

Oregon peach-bloom on your cheeks, too; Ill wager you are just in from the farm, you hayseed.

Word Value for hayseed
Scrable

14

Words with friends

12

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