clod·hop·per

(klŏd′hŏp′ər)

1. A clumsy, coarse person; a bumpkin.

2. A big heavy shoe.

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clodhopper

(ˈklɒdˌhɒpə)

1. a clumsy person; lout

2. (usually plural) a large heavy shoe or boot

ˈclodˌhopping adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

clod•hop•per

(ˈklɒdˌhɒp ər)

n.

1. a clumsy boor; rustic; bumpkin.

2. clodhoppers, strong, heavy shoes.

[1680–90]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

clodhopper - a thick and heavy shoe

brogan, brogue, work shoe

shoe - footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material

clodhopper

noun

A clumsy, unsophisticated person:

bumpkin, rustic, yokel.

Translations

pataccone

clodhopper

[ˈklɒdˌhɒpəʳ] N → patán m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

clodhopper

n (inf)

(= person) → Trampel nt (inf), → Tollpatsch m

(= shoe) → Quadratlatschen m (inf)

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"Keep to your own station, Sancho," replied Teresa; "don't try to raise yourself higher, and bear in mind the proverb that says, 'wipe the nose of your neigbbour's son, and take him into your house.' A fine thing it would be, indeed, to marry our Maria to some great count or grand gentleman, who, when the humour took him, would abuse her and call her clown-bred and clodhopper's daughter and spinning wench.

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She could no more think of this man as a clodhopper, a coarse upstart without manners or imagination.

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Half clodhopper, half board-school prig, they can still throw back to a nobler stock, and breed yeomen.

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The distance was little more than six miles, but the road was strange, and I had to keep stopping to inquire my way; hallooing to carters and clodhoppers, and frequently invading the cottages, for there were few abroad that winter's morning; sometimes knocking up the lazy people from their beds, for where so little work was to be done, perhaps so little food and fire to be had, they cared not to curtail their slumbers.

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It took an old African soldier to show those clodhoppers. .

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"Oh, a LOT of people WE never heard of before - the shoemaker and horse-doctor and knife-grinder kind, you know - clodhoppers from goodness knows where that never handled a sword or fired a shot in their lives - but the soldiership was in them, though they never had a chance to show it.

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