Clodhopper vs Hick - What's the difference?
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A strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot.
* 1830 , Margaret Hundy, "First Epistle from Mrs. Margaret Hundy", The Lady's Magazine :
*:...who had got on his "hill shoes," as he calls a pair of clodhoppers as thick as a ploughman's, and stuck round with nails.
(US) Any kind of shoe.
* 1959 , Claude F. Koch, "A Matter of Family":
*:We had to walk slow because of his wooden clod-hoppers , and that was the way I wanted it now
(military slang) United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.
* 1943 , "Senators go global: Five will fly to all fronts", LIFE Magazine , August 16:
*:Smiling Jim Mead of New York tries on his GI clodhopper boots. He decided to return them "because we couldn't make any altitude with those aboard."
A peasant or yokel.
*1719 , René Le Bossu (translated by Pierre François le Courayer and Peter Anthony Motteux), Monsieur Bossu's treatise of the epick poem , :
*1869 , Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone , :
*:'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.'
(UK) A clumsy or foolish person.
*1826 , P.H. Clias, "Gymnastics", Blackwood's Magazine , Volume XX, No. CXV, August:
*:All guess-work exploits shrivel up a good yard, or sometimes two, when brought to the measure, and the champion of the county dwindles into a clumsy clod-hopper .
Wheatear; any of various passerine birds.
*1834 , Robert Mudie, The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands , Volume 1:
*:...and as the birds then begin to resort to the downs and open commons, the "fallow-chat," "wheat-ear," and "clodhopper ," are not unappropriate names.
(pejorative) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.
Clodhopper is a related term of hick.
As a noun clodhopper
is a strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot.As a proper noun hick is
.clodhopper
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Noun
(en noun)- ...now a book is no greater rarity than bacon and greens in Virginia; and the clodhopper of this country returns from his daily labours to a book
