Synonyms for clodhopper

Grammar : Noun

Spell : klod-hop-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈklɒdˌhɒp ər

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Définition of clodhopper

Origin : 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.

noun lummox

Example sentences :

She did not like to think Father a clodhopper; and I am sure he is not.
Extract from : « Out in the Forty-Five » by Emily Sarah Holt

What if she should think me a clown and a clodhopper, as Tom Tracy does?
Extract from : « Gretchen » by Mary J. Holmes

The clodhopper had got her, and I had been only toiling in his service!
Extract from : « Sheppard Lee, Vol. I (of 2) » by Robert Montgomery Bird

You think you are the man of talent and I am the clodhopper.
Extract from : « It Is Never Too Late to Mend » by Charles Reade

His clodhopper of a father sold firewood to the sweet mother of me!
Extract from : « The Wolf Cub » by Patrick Casey

You assert your right to marry who you will—clodhopper or landowner.
Extract from : « Meg's Friend » by Alice Abigail Corkran

But the British officers were scornful of their clodhopper besiegers.
Extract from : « The Continental Dragoon » by Robert Neilson Stephens

In the country this vice of the clodhopper is far from infrequent.
Extract from : « Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) » by Havelock Ellis

A clodhopper might knock a mast out of a vessel, but a sailor must replace it.
Extract from : « Miles Wallingford » by James Fenimore Cooper

Evidently he had no fear of being-called a "clodhopper" or a "hayseed!"
Extract from : « George Washington: Farmer » by Paul Leland Haworth

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