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clodhopper

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈklɑdˌhɑpɚ/Part of speech nounSorted cdehloopprStarts with CEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a thick and heavy shoe

Word origin

The term originated in the 17th century as a derogatory name for a farm laborer—someone who "hopped" (stomped) over "clods" of earth; attested in the sense of "peasant" since the seventeenth century; the extended sense of "boot" or "shoe" dates from the nineteenth century.

Used in a sentence

  • ...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.
  • We had to walk slow because of his wooden clod-hoppers, and that was the way I wanted it now
  • 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."

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