hayseed
/ˈheɪˌsid/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.72 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "And when he got his first demand, he shook his head and put a pained expression on his face, and in his most hayseed manner allowed as how things were kind of different now."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈheɪˌsid/