clodhopper

• “In Chiapas, we do not need what you refer to as "nob type insulation" as what we use there for insulation is three foot thick adobe walls that take up more space than your entire living room in that tarpaper shack of yours in Crapola but we must admit that we need propane heaters as we lack your incessant hot air bloviating forth to heat our maison you Alberta clodhopper.”

  About Ajijic, food, music, people, and the "social life"

• “The Xoloitxqunitli to whom you refer is known around these parts as The Princess and she is way too elegant and beautiful to be living with an obese southern clodhopper such as Dawg who should have never been allowed to cross the Butler County, Alabama line on his way to Mexico via San Francisco but that´s another story.”

  See You Later, Mr. Chan*

• “Jon Walters is a clodhopper, so he could probably fit in well in the Paraguay midfield.47 min: Barreto over-hits a free-kick from the left.”

  The Guardian: Copa América 2011: Paraguay v Venezuela – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg

• “Frol danced with every clodhopper who asked, while Alobar munched sausages and black puddings and played at dice and cards.”

  Fictionaut: La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth

• “Within that year, Ace had gone from a clumsy clodhopper to a large Labrador who liked to tackle Marky.”

  Fictionaut: WHITE RABBIT

• “It is but standing a laugh or two, and hearing a gay fellow say, D — — me, Jack, are you turned clodhopper at last? — that is the worst.”

  Saint Ronan's Well

• “They will not deny that this boy is of revolting appearance, that his body is rotten through and through with disease, that he is liable to fits, and is a barbarian and a clodhopper.”

  The Defense

• “She told rather queer anecdotes of her relations in the days of her childhood, spoke of herself as quite as much of a clodhopper as Natalya Kirilovna Narishkin.”

  The Torrents of Spring

• “When a barbarian insults me, I take it as a foul word from a clodhopper, which does not hurt me, but may damage his own self-respect, if he cherishes such an illusion.”

  Springhaven

• “‘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.’”

  Lorna Doone

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