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clodhopper
/ ˈklɒdˌhɒpə /
noun
- a clumsy person; lout
- usually plural a large heavy shoe or boot
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Derived Forms
- ˈclodˌhopping, adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of clodhopper1
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Example Sentences
The problem is when you get these big thick clodhopper shoes what ends up happening is you lose that.
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“I believe you are the young lady who admired that old clodhopper in the picture,” he remarked.
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It is not the clodhopper, the navvy or the labourer, the careless or the incompetent, who suffer from them.
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His clodhopper of a father sold firewood to the sweet mother of me!
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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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Come on; it is so like a country clodhopper to stand looking at a big house, as if you had never seen one before.
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