clodhopper

[ klod-hop-er ]

/ ˈklɒdˌhɒp ər /

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noun

a clumsy boor; rustic; bumpkin.

clodhoppers, strong, heavy shoes.

OTHER WORDS FOR clodhopper

1 hick, yokel, lout, hayseed, lummox.

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Origin of clodhopper

1680–90; clod + hopper, modeled on grasshopper

Words nearby clodhopper

clockwise, clockwork, clockwork universe, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clodpoll, Cloë, Cloete, clofibrate

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How to use clodhopper in a sentence

The problem is when you get these big thick clodhopper shoes what ends up happening is you lose that.
These Shoes Are Killing Me! (Ep. 296 Rebroadcast)|Stephen J. Dubner|May 20, 2021|Freakonomics
“I believe you are the young lady who admired that old clodhopper in the picture,” he remarked.
A Bookful of Girls|Anna Fuller
It is not the clodhopper, the navvy or the labourer, the careless or the incompetent, who suffer from them.
Nervous Breakdowns and How to Avoid Them|Charles David Musgrove
His clodhopper of a father sold firewood to the sweet mother of me!
The Wolf Cub|Patrick Casey

Half clodhopper, half board-school prig, they can still throw back to a nobler stock, and breed yeomen.
Howards End|E. M. Forster
Come on; it is so like a country clodhopper to stand looking at a big house, as if you had never seen one before.
Under the Mendips|Emma Marshall

British Dictionary definitions for clodhopper

clodhopper

/ (ˈklɒdˌhɒpə) /

noun informal

a clumsy person; lout

(usually plural) a large heavy shoe or boot

Derived forms of clodhopper

clodhopping, adjective

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