Clodhopper

/ˈklɑdˌhɑpɚ/ · noun

Meaning

A strong shoe for heavy-duty use; a boot..

Definitions by Sense

1. A strong shoe for heavy-duty use; a boot.
2. Any shoe construed (within a particular context) as ungainly.
3. United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.
4. To refer to generally big feet or the foot of a clumsy person.
5. (UK) A clumsy or foolish person.
6. (historical, derogatory) A peasant or yokel (countryperson).
7. Wheatear: any of various passerine birds.

Example Sentences

...who had got on his "hill shoes," as he calls a pair of clodhoppers as thick as a ploughman's, and stuck round with nails.

We had to walk slow because of his wooden clod-hoppers, and that was the way I wanted it now

Smiling Jim Mead of New York tries on his GI clodhopper boots. He decided to return them "because we couldn't make any altitude with those aboard."

[…] now a book is no greater rarity than bacon and greens in Virginia; and the clodhopper of this country returns from his daily labours to a book […]

'Nephew Jack,' he cried, looking at me when I was thinking what to say, and finding only emptiness, 'you are a heavy lout, sir; a bumpkin, a clodhopper; and I shall leave you nothing, unless it be my boots to grease.'

All guess-work exploits shrivel up a good yard, or sometimes two, when brought to the measure, and the champion of the county dwindles into a clumsy clod-hopper.

Near-synonyms: bumpkin, hick

...and as the birds then begin to resort to the downs and open commons, the "fallow-chat," "wheat-ear," and "clodhopper," are not unappropriate names.

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