noun
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a clumsy person; lout
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(usually plural) a large heavy shoe or boot
Other Word Forms
- clodhopping adjective
Etymology
Origin of clodhopper
1680–90; clod + hopper, modeled on grasshopper
Example Sentences
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She wore a marble-dyed mesh shirt, tight jeans, clodhopper heels and a bounty of rings and necklaces.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022
One line confirms what the audience suspected: The clodhopper is in fact a shrewd judge of character.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2021
It started with Jeffery Campbell Litas in 2010, the hipster girl’s platform clodhopper of choice.
From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2019
One-hundred years later you may wonder what possible connection this quaint clodhopper has to tell us about the gargantuan heavy equipment company?
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 7, 2018
“He can barely walk. What do you think I’ve been doing all week? I’ve been giving him ballroom dancing lessons. And the big clodhopper tramped all over my feet. I’m crippled for life.”
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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