What does clod-hopping mean?
Clod-hopping means Alternative form of clodhopping..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Alternative form of clodhopping..
Farmers, with clod-hopping boots, two inches thick, bolted in when the Vicar’s wife was calling, leaving a strong odour of tobacco behind them, and staying just long enough to explain to the affronted Mrs. Meadows, that they “only stepped in about the toithes.”
What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane!—a clod-hopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
I may call Mr. Milliken what I please; but not you, you little scamp of a clod-hopping ploughboy.
Use clod-hopping when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clod-hopping means Alternative form of clodhopping..
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Farmers, with clod-hopping boots, two inches thick, bolted in when the Vicar’s wife was calling, leaving a strong odour of tobacco behind them, and staying just long enough to explain to the affronted Mrs. Meadows, that they “only stepped in about the toithes.”
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