clodhopping
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of clodhopping
First recorded in 1835–45; clodhopp(er) + -ing 2
Example Sentences
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The creators of “Playing With Fire,” a clodhopping comedy about California wildfire “smoke jumpers,” built in little pauses after many of the film’s sight gags and verbal jokes, presumably to accommodate audience laughter.
From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2019
It’s much easier to put aside doctrinal differences and work together when an attorney at the lectern sounds like a clodhopping amateur trying out for the moot court team.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2016
"There are clodhopping idiots, treated in a really down-to-earth, anti-heroic way. In Tolkien's own fiction, he creates totally different moods. The hobbits are very relatable, very friendly; and then the elves are much more remote."
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2015
Although First Party Secretary Khrushchev might have seemed to Mikoyan a clodhopping countryman, Khrushchev had one prime quality that Mikoyan valued�political skill.
From Time Magazine Archive
So the clodhopping Collector goes to Naini Tal or Darjiling, where he is known either as Ellenborough Higgins, or Higgins of Gharibpur in territorial fashion.
From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert
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