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

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How to use clodhopper in a sentence

P'r'aps I ain't got it, after bein' on shore among clodhoppers for two years.
The Skipper and the Skipped|Holman Day
It meant disgrace, defeat; and this fire was as a seal of vassalage affixed to my arms by those I called clodhoppers and serfs.
Mauprat|George Sand
What was he doing there, with his keen face and worldly, confident carriage, amidst those clodhoppers?
The Clarion|Samuel Hopkins Adams
He refers to a Berlin caricature of the scene which was at the time in all the shops, "exciting even the laughter of clodhoppers."
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine|Henry Foljambe Hall

They were all clodhoppers up here, he said, and you could only get any proper polish in the South.
Out in the Forty-Five|Emily Sarah Holt

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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