Clodhopper vs Rustic - 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.
Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
* (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
Unfinished or roughly finished.
Crude, rough.
Simple; artless; unaffected.
* (Alexander Pope)
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}
Our rustic dance wi' scorn. * 1818 — (Mary Shelley), Ch. I *: With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection. * 1820 — (Washington Irving), *: To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
* 1906 — (Arthur Conan Doyle), , Ch IX
* 1927-29' — (Mahatma Gandhi), '', Part V, The Stain of Indigo'', translated ' 1940 by (Mahadev Desai)
As nouns the difference between clodhopper and rustic
is that clodhopper is a strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot while rustic is a (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.As an adjective rustic is
country-styled or pastoral; rural.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
Usage notes
This term mostly occurs in the plural, e.g. “a pair of clodhoppers .”rustic
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustiqueAdjective
(en adjective)- She had a rustic , woodland air.
Derived terms
* rustic moth * rustic workQuotations
{{timeline, 1700s=17??, 1800s=1818 1820}} * late 1700s — (Robert Burns), *: The Princely revel may surveyOur rustic dance wi' scorn. * 1818 — (Mary Shelley), Ch. I *: With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection. * 1820 — (Washington Irving), *: To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
Noun
(en noun)- The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
- Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics .