clod-hopper

“You are a clod-hopper”; and “I will sit upon the mountain” = turn anchorite or magician.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Love such as mine would be respectable in a clod-hopper, and I think that even you will acknowledge that I stand somewhat higher than that.

Initials Only 2003

It implied every pejorative ever invented to describe someone who was hopelessly ignorant, impossibly inexperienced'dry-seed, greenie, wet-behind-the-ears, clod-hopper, milk-fed, dunce, country-cousin-and was generally used to begin a dressing-down of one kind or another.

The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994

The newly made clod-hopper is respectfully informed that he can air his grievances to the fullest extent and that, unlike others, we will not pass resolutions of acquiescence in his views and then repudiate them.

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

He had worn his life out to produce the Pilgrim's Progress, and now a darn clod-hopper, a Reuben, a gilly, a jay, had undone the work of a lifetime and made him (Palmer) ridiculous in the eyes of the world.

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

An intelligent gardener is better than a clod-hopper, and an educated nurse is better than an ignorant one; but if the gardener and the nurse have been spoiled for their business and their condition, by the sentiments which they have imbibed with their knowledge, they are made uncomfortable to themselves, and to those whom they serve.

Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb

I'm no clod-hopper to have you make me appear a rowdy.

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

With the lack of quick wit, characteristic of the clod-hopper, it did not occur to him to mention this at the time.

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

As a matter of fact, he had expected to dispose of Greer easily -- as a gentleman disposes of a clod-hopper.

The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923

“I won't become a clod-hopper,” I exclaimed, seeing the dreary, endless monotony of such a life.

Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922