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
If you fear being bored to extinction by heavy dialect and heavy characters clodhopping to a country tragedy, take heart: there is enough irony, humanity, sly humor to leaven a much heavier lump.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aye, and this miserable creature is a fox by nature, that has never done anything honest or gentlemanly—a very tragical ape, a clodhopping Oenomaus, a counterfeit orator!
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 by Pickard, Arthur Wallace
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