" hayseed "

 [ "hayseed" ]

1: AKA hay seed

  * e.g.,  ... The used tractor depot was full of hayseeds and rednecks. 

 [ "hayseed" ]

2: A slow witted or unstylish person from the rural midwest.

 [ "hayseed" ]

1: derogatory term for a rural member of the American working class. This cutesy term has a demonizing impact on class consciousness, segregating the rural worker from his urban counterpart.

  * e.g.,  ... Hayseeds go back to the country, never to be heard from again. 

 [ "hayseed" ]

1: a common person, somebody of little intelligence and social status.

  * e.g.,  ... a hayseed could be somebody on the dole by their own desire and living in a council estate 

 [ "hayseed" ]

2: originates from elderly country folk

 [ "hayseed" ]

1: Someone who shovels manure; a shitkicker.

  * e.g.,  ... The grunt that works on the farm was a total hayseed. good for feeding the chickens 

 [ "hayseed" ]

2: Someone who spends all their time on a farm away from civilization

 [ "Hayseed" ]

1: In the Military: A derogatory term used by higher ranking members as a sort of "nickname" for those below their own rank.

  * e.g.,  ... Hayseed, quit fucking around and get back to work 

 [ "Hayseed" ]

1: Someone who can't stay in one place or with one person. A hayseed blows with the wind wherever it goes.

  * e.g.,  ... That Arkansas hayseed Daisy goes from town to town, home to home, and man to man. 

 [ "Hayseed" ]

1: Americana singer/songwriter.

  * e.g.,  ... "Hayseed has been powerfully shaped by the deeply rooted sounds of Southern that is, white gospel music and black gospel. Add on to that. . . dozens of other songwriters whose language is informed by poetry, and you get somewhere near to understanding where his music comes from."  

 [ "Hayseed" ]

2: Miller Williams, Inaugural poet and father of Lucinda Williams, describes Hayseed's music as "Roots music. Not from just one tree but a whole grove: bluegrass, old-time, country, gospel, folk, rock, soul..."

  * e.g.,  ... - Grant Alden, No Depression Magazine 

 [ "Hayseed Dixie" ]

1: Nashville multi-instrumentalist / singer / songwriter / recording engineer John Wheeler's bluegrass band that pays loving tribute to heavy metal and bluegrass by demonstrating the similarities betwixt the two. As Barley Scotch (Wheeler) is apt to say, “That ‘Lost Highway’ of Hank Williams and AC/DC’s ‘Highway to Hell’ are indeed the same road!” The core band includes the Brothers Reno: Deacon Dale and Brother Don Wayne Jr., whose father surely taught them about the transmogrification of music. Banjo pioneer Don Sr. wrote the famous "Dueling Banjos,” which the Dixies cover on their fourth studio album (and their live DVD) -- Not to be confused with equally talented Americana singer / songwriter Christopher Wyant, who goes by the name “Hayseed.”

  * e.g.,  ... Cityboy: "What the hell is THIS?"