Clodhopping
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Clodhopping is an adjective meaning (informal) boorish; rude or awkward.
Meaning
(informal) boorish; rude or awkward.
Example Sentences
a clodhopping mortal who lived on a lower plane of existence.
What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane!—a clod-hopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
She greeted me with a smacking kiss, consigned the baby to the charge of the eldest child, a big girl of fourteen, and seizing upon my trunks as though they were feather-weight, with heavy clodhopping step disappeared into the house with them.
There is actually at this instant, at the Blue Dragon in this village—an alehouse observe; a common, paltry, low-minded, clodhopping pipe-smoking alehouse—an individual, of whom it may be said, in the language of the Poet, that nobody but himself can in any way come up to him; who is detained there for his bill.
Word Forms
- clod-hopping
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clod-hopping, clubbish, chuffy, ocker, kernish, dirty-handed.
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