as in hick
an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country though educated and sophisticated, the country singer always put on the facade of an amiable hayseed when in public

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Recent Examples of hayseed Mantle was the voluble hayseed from Oklahoma who could hit anything but was corrupted by the big city, and wound up undone by alcohol and knee injuries. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024 Today, the variety shows’ wise-clown hayseeds (overalls, prosthetic teeth, silly hats, no shoes) are the ones who get all the good lines, whose material is distinctive in its political sensibility and cultural hobbyhorses. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024 Lilly’s bequest was big enough to impress the hayseeds at the feed store, but, as the magazine’s editor, Wiman was making only sixty thousand dollars a year. Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023 Grey Henson and Ashley D. Kelley as the gleeful Storytellers, Kevin Cahoon as a hayseed philosopher and Caroline Innerbichler as the requisite ingenue all joyfully indulge the cheeky, harmlessly off-color vibe. Peter Marks, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023 Who is this gosh-darn hayseed? Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Nov. 2020 Sort of like how Axl Rose is some hayseed with chops like Chopin. Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 3 Aug. 2022 To share the workload, and also to teach him how to do everything, Jeremy brings on an uneducated 21-year-old blond hayseed named Kaleb who sports a series of increasingly dire haircuts as the series goes on. Kyle Smith, National Review, 8 Aug. 2021 Callum Scott Howells is another standout as Colin, a Welsh hayseed who’s wonderstruck by city life. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2021
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Noun
  • In first grade, when a teacher called him a hick, Ciotti threw an inkwell at her.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In the special, taped at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV, Kober brings audiences together with stories about dealing with hometown hicks, unforgiving fruit flies and California candy cartels.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 25 June 2024
Noun
  • Florida yokels versus the elite Hollywood movie-star kind of group.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 July 2024
  • Ben’s refusal to stand down for a middle-aged white man seeking to wrest power from him was radical, as was the film’s ending, in which the hero was shot by yokels failing to distinguish him from the zombies previously described as animals.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Emily in Paris On Location: Hotel Plaza Athénée Paris Rediscover Paris as Chicago bumpkin Emily (played by Lily Collins) moves there for a job and takes you to places like Galeries Lafayette, Galerie-Musee Baccarat and Hotel Plaza Athénée Paris.
    Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
  • At their worst, these histories, like the Soviet one, reduce Ukrainians to lazy, irresponsible, prejudiced country bumpkins with exaggerated penchants for vodka and violence.
    Alexander J. Motyl, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2016
Noun
  • That means dressing up as a knight, king, queen, lord or lady, maybe even a peasant or fairy.
    Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024
  • An estimated 20,000 people swarmed the 1378 conclave in Rome to make their opinion known, including peasants who traveled from the countryside.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The gilets jaunes protests, a largely peri-urban phenomenon, inverted the roles played by Parisians and provincials in 1871.
    Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Until recently, attendees at such a talk would have seen themselves as mere provincials gathering to hear a report from the great halls of power in London and Washington.
    Jonathan Kay, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • That’s easy: a rube, chump, or mark, whose naive optimism sets them up for betrayal.
    Jamil Zaki, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Sometimes, the film’s examination of excess can simply be excessive, but The Wolf of Wall Street is hypnotizing — and a damning condemnation of us poor rubes.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • It Chapter Two is down to clown, again — in a bloody, silly, overwrought sequel Moving down the tension scale to thrillers, Netflix is offloading a few particularly popular titles.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • An 8-year-old girl fought back against an attacker wearing a clown mask who is accused of assaulting her in her bedroom earlier this month, police said.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The vibe: Elevated and modern with a touch of rustic.
    Laura Barrero, Axios, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The Swag, Waynesville, North Carolina The decor here is pitch-perfect rustic: cozy without being twee.
    Juliet Izon, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2024

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“Hayseed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hayseed. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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