clodhopper

[klod-hop-er]

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noun

a clumsy boor; rustic; bumpkin.

clodhoppers, strong, heavy shoes.

Origin of clodhopper

1680–90; clod + hopper, modeled on grasshopper

Synonyms for clodhopper

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1. hick, yokel, lout, hayseed, lummox.

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Related Words for clodhopper

oaf, bumpkin, lout, boor, redneck, clown, rustic, shoe, hind, yokel, hick, boot, plowman

Examples from the Web for clodhopper

Historical Examples of clodhopper

She did not like to think Father a clodhopper; and I am sure he is not.
Out in the Forty-Five
Emily Sarah Holt
What if she should think me a clown and a clodhopper, as Tom Tracy does?
Gretchen
Mary J. Holmes
The clodhopper had got her, and I had been only toiling in his service!
Sheppard Lee, Vol. I (of 2)
Robert Montgomery Bird
You think you are the man of talent and I am the clodhopper.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
Charles Reade
His clodhopper of a father sold firewood to the sweet mother of me!
The Wolf Cub
Patrick Casey

British Dictionary definitions for clodhopper

clodhopper

noun informal

a clumsy person; lout

(usually plural) a large heavy shoe or boot

Derived Formsclodhopping, adjective

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Word Origin and History for clodhopper

1690s, slang, "one who works on plowed land, a rustic," from clod (n.) + agent noun from hop (v.). Cf. in a similar sense clod-breaker, clod-crusher; in this word perhaps a play on grasshopper. Sense extended by 1836 to the shoes worn by such workers.