Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A clumsy, coarse person; a bumpkin.
- noun A big heavy shoe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A clown; a rustic; a boor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rude, rustic fellow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A strong
shoe forheavy-duty use, aboot . - noun US Any kind of shoe.
- noun military slang
United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots. - noun A
peasant oryokel . - noun UK Clumsiness associated with wearing large shoes or boots.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a thick and heavy shoe
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Examples
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The Xoloitxqunitli to whom you refer is known around these parts as The Princess and she is way too elegant and beautiful to be living with an obese southern clodhopper such as Dawg who should have never been allowed to cross the Butler County, Alabama line on his way to Mexico via San Francisco but that´s another story.
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Jon Walters is a clodhopper, so he could probably fit in well in the Paraguay midfield.47 min: Barreto over-hits a free-kick from the left.
Copa América 2011: Paraguay v Venezuela – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2011
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In Chiapas, we do not need what you refer to as "nob type insulation" as what we use there for insulation is three foot thick adobe walls that take up more space than your entire living room in that tarpaper shack of yours in Crapola but we must admit that we need propane heaters as we lack your incessant hot air bloviating forth to heat our maison you Alberta clodhopper.
About Ajijic, food, music, people, and the "social life" 2009
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The Xoloitxqunitli to whom you refer is known around these parts as The Princess and she is way too elegant and beautiful to be living with an obese southern clodhopper such as Dawg who should have never been allowed to cross the Butler County, Alabama line on his way to Mexico via San Francisco but that´s another story.
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The Xoloitxqunitli to whom you refer is known around these parts as The Princess and she is way too elegant and beautiful to be living with an obese southern clodhopper such as Dawg who should have never been allowed to cross the Butler County, Alabama line on his way to Mexico via San Francisco but that´s another story.
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The Xoloitxqunitli to whom you refer is known around these parts as The Princess and she is way too elegant and beautiful to be living with an obese southern clodhopper such as Dawg who should have never been allowed to cross the Butler County, Alabama line on his way to Mexico via San Francisco but that´s another story.
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The Xoloitxqunitli to whom you refer is known around these parts as The Princess and she is way too elegant and beautiful to be living with an obese southern clodhopper such as Dawg who should have never been allowed to cross the Butler County, Alabama line on his way to Mexico via San Francisco but that´s another story.
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The Xoloitxqunitli to whom you refer is known around these parts as The Princess and she is way too elegant and beautiful to be living with an obese southern clodhopper such as Dawg who should have never been allowed to cross the Butler County, Alabama line on his way to Mexico via San Francisco but that´s another story.
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The Xoloitxqunitli to whom you refer is known around these parts as The Princess and she is way too elegant and beautiful to be living with an obese southern clodhopper such as Dawg who should have never been allowed to cross the Butler County, Alabama line on his way to Mexico via San Francisco but that´s another story.
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The Xoloitxqunitli to whom you refer is known around these parts as The Princess and she is way too elegant and beautiful to be living with an obese southern clodhopper such as Dawg who should have never been allowed to cross the Butler County, Alabama line on his way to Mexico via San Francisco but that´s another story.
yarb commented on the word clodhopper
There were collected eight or ten clodhoppers, all friends and neighbours, assembled on the green for the purpose of honouring my arrival...
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 10 ch. 3
October 8, 2008
yaybob commented on the word clodhopper
A clumsy, awkward fellow
December 16, 2008
qms commented on the word clodhopper
Somewhere she gives birth to a pauper
Each minute, a new future clodhopper.
There is nothing surer:
The world will grow poorer
Till we find that woman and stop her.
March 11, 2014
samccool commented on the word clodhopper
I heard this word used in Bucks County, PA for exceptionally roughed or ugly large work shoes, sometimes because they were covered in manure or mud. As a result, the word had pejorative connotations.
March 30, 2014
ry commented on the word clodhopper
cf. shitkicker
March 31, 2014
oroboros commented on the word clodhopper
A plowman, especially a hired hand on a farm, according to NPR's Says You.
November 8, 2014