hayseed
Example Sentences
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Old meaning of hick: hayseed, rube, ill-educated person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
I, on the other hand, remain a philistine and a hayseed.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
He chose his favored venue of the Aspen Ideas festival, where his transfixing hayseed act has been a perennial marquee attraction.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2020
But Mr. Harron became best known for playing Charlie Farquharson, a wisecracking hayseed whose inspiration he traced to his days working on an Ontario farm.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2015
When we didn’t speak, Aileen hummed so softly and warmly, I thought of the cicadas and the crickets singing at dusk in the dust and hayseed of Uncle Earl’s farm.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
