Clodhopper

Quick meaning: Clodhopper is a noun meaning A strong shoe for heavy-duty use; a boot.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: bumpkin, hick

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

...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.

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."

Word Forms

• clodhoppers

Synonyms for clodhopper

Depending on context, synonyms include clodknocker, oaf, bumpkin, hick, brogue, brogan.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brogan, brogue, lout, oaf, clog, mud-kicker.

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