clodhopper

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She could no more think of this man as a clodhopper, a coarse upstart without manners or imagination.

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  1. noun A clumsy, coarse person; a bumpkin.
  2. noun A big heavy shoe.

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  • Peaceful seems the sandy landscape where you are, glad the very blackjacks, happy the curs, blessed the sheep, interesting the chin-whiskered clodhopper, innocent the fool darkey, blessed the mule, for it knows no war. —  The Life and Letters of Walter H Page
  • Grotesque and ridiculous descriptions of him, as if he had been a Caliban in education, manners, and aspect, had been rife among Southerners, and the story goes that the Southern delegates expected to be at once amused and shocked by the sight of a clodhopper whose conversation would be redolent of the barnyard, not to say of the pigsty. —  Abraham Lincoln
  • She could no more think of this man as a clodhopper, a coarse upstart without manners or imagination. —  A Millionaire of Yesterday
  • said he, "I know what the clodhopper is after; and even if I must suffer in consequence, I shall take good care that he cannot shake off his bonds. —  Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
  • "By God!" said he, "I know what the clodhopper is after; and even if I must suffer in consequence, I shall take good care that he cannot shake off his bonds. —  Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
 

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  1. from clod + hopper; one who ‘hops’ over ‘clods,’ i. e., a plowman.
 

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/ˈklɑdhɑpər/
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