Meaning of Clodhopper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot.
2. Any shoe construed (within a particular context) as ungainly.
   US
3. United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.
   slang
4. A peasant or yokel.
5. A clumsy or foolish person.
   UK
6. Wheatear: any of various passerine birds.

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Examples

“...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.”

“...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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