Meaning of clod-hopping | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“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.”

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