hayseed

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Seeds from grass that has become hay.

   “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.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
3. (countable)A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.

adj

1. Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater.

   “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.”