clodhopper
2
9.6
- noun
- /ˈklɒdˌhɒpər/
- Archaic
:
zapato de trabajo
- The girl reset a red-billed cap, adjusted the straps of her bib overalls over a brown cotton shirt, and stomped dirt off her clodhoppers.
Examples
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You're waking up half the waterfront with those clodhoppers.
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My grandfather always wore sturdy clodhoppers when tending to the livestock.
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The first sergeant had an unusual stride that must have been a natural practice on a farm; he gave meaning to the expression "clodhopper."
Fiction book (1990) -
The clodhoppers she's been walking around in today.
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He will feel that he is a clodhopper from Podunk, Iowa.
Blog text (5) -
The father smelled of soured sweat, his clodhoppers covered by bottom dust, his face darkened by beard stubble.
Fiction book (1992) -
The farmer wore his clodhoppers while working in the muddy fields.
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She kicked off her clodhoppers after a long day on the farm.
Synonyms
6
8.4
A strong leather shoe with small holes used for walking in the countryside
2
2.7
A strong shoe that protects your feet during hard work
1
8.9
A strong heavy leather shoe worn for hard work
How Sturdy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Clodhopper comes from clod ('a lump of earth') and hopper ('one who hops', as in grasshopper). It pictured someone walking through mud and clods, so the word came to mean a thick, heavy country shoe, the big sturdy boots used for farm work.