clodhopper

• If ever I saw a regular clodhopper, he's the chap. —  Dorothy on a Ranch
• The fact is that the farmer of the West is not the clodhopper, at whose expense the funny man of the modern journal likes to crack jokes. —  The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891
• And a later Latin writer speaks of the farmer who does not plough thoroughly as one who becomes a mere "clodhopper." —  Modern American Prose Selections
• In a song on taverns the student is warned that he may meet with rough treatment from the clodhopper:[8 O clerici dilecti Discite vitare Tabernam horribilem Qui cupitis regnare Nec audeant vos rustici Plagis verberare Rusticus dum se Sentit ebriatum Clericum non reputat Militem armatum Vere plane consulo Ut abstineatis Nec unquam cum rusticis Tabernam ineatis The affinities of the Wandering Students were rather with the Church than with laymen of any degree. —  Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse
• He was remarkably fastidious in his care of the Library, and it was exceedingly amusing to see a clodhopper (for he was always in the garb of a ploughman) moving about in the splendid apartment which had been fitted up for the Library, scrutinising the state of the books, putting derangement to rights, remonstrating when he observed anything that indicated carelessness 358] Blank in original 359] Abbotsford Notanda_, p. 175 360] Eldest daughter of David, sixth Earl of Leven and fifth of Melville, and widow of Sir John Wishart Belsches Stuart, Bart., of Fettercairn. —  The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

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