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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clodhopper
noun
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▪ He wore a shapeless gray cap, coarse work clothes, and heavy clodhopper shoes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clodhopper

Clodhopper \Clod"hop`per\, n. A rude, rustic fellow.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clodhopper

1690s, slang, "one who works on plowed land, a rustic," from clod (n.) + agent noun from hop (v.). Compare in a similar sense clod-breaker, clod-crusher; in this word perhaps a play on grasshopper. Sense extended by 1836 to the shoes worn by such workers.

Wiktionary
clodhopper

n. 1 A strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot. 2 (context US English) Any kind of shoe. 3 (context military slang English) United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots. 4 A peasant or yokel. 5 (context UK English) A clumsy or foolish person. 6 wheatear; any of various passerine birds.

WordNet
clodhopper

n. a thick and heavy shoe [syn: brogan, brogue, work shoe]

Wikipedia
Clodhopper

A Clodhopper is another word for a shoe. It may also mean:

  • Clodhopper candies — a type of fudge-covered graham wafer.
Clodhopper (candy)

Clodhoppers are crunchy, fudge-covered graham clusters. They were marketed by the Kraves Candy Co., located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In 2006 the brand and recipes were sold to Brookside Foods in 2006.

They were available in vanilla, chocolate, dark chocolate, dark chocolate fudge, and trademarked "Cookies & Clods" flavours. The peanut butter flavour was the first flavour to be discontinued and since October 2012 the line itself was discontinued.

Usage examples of "clodhopper".

At about this same time too, frogs reappeared in the irrigation ditches, and folks once more heard them singing at night, obviously because the old sheepherder had become so busy stitching miniature clodhoppers for the Sainted Child and otherwise trying to bring back Pendejo that he no longer had time for his nocturnal canine patrol of the waterways.

Davies was making little of it, as an object lesson for what he saw as Free State clodhoppers who needed instruction in the violent ways of the North.

Matern signs and is led to a bathroom where, standing beside a dry tub, he is expected to remove his traveling clothes and put on light denims, woolen socks, high clodhoppers, a woolen scarf, and a new, yellow-varnished, and ill-fitting hard hat.

But the fact that he has made you all think and aware of what you are, to my mind has added insult to injury, for you know you are carrying a stigma, whereas, if he had left you like the rest of the clodhoppers in the village and round about, they would have accepted you, and laughed at you, and with you, and joked about your bastardy.

Amsel, with his scarecrow builder's feet in rough, deeply furrowed clodhoppers, was nevertheless delighted at the sight of his patent-leather shoes on Walter Matern's feet.

This unpredictable pair could walk on little cat feet, silent as fog, or they could thump across the floor like clodhoppers.

Half clodhopper, half board-school prig, they can still throw back to a nobler stock, and breed yeomen.