Hayseed vs. Rube — What's the Difference?

Grass seed shaken out of hay.

A rube is a country bumpkin or an inexperienced, unsophisticated person. Rube is also sometimes used as a nickname, for Reuben, Ruben or Rubin.

Pieces of chaff or straw that fall from hay.

An unsophisticated country person.

(Informal) An unsophisticated person from a rural area; a bumpkin.

A person of rural heritage; a yokel.

Seeds from grass that has become hay.

(pejorative) An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.

Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.

Not very intelligent or interested in culture

(countable) A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.

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

A rural, unsophisticated person; also used in an extended sense for one who is not very intelligent or uninterested in culture.

Seed from grass, especially that which falls out of hay.

Not very intelligent or interested in culture