clodhopper
名词 n.
英 /ˈklɒdˌhɒpə/
美 /ˈklɑdˌhɑpɚ/
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名词 n.
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A strong shoe for heavy-duty use; a boot.
— ...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.
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Any shoe construed (within a particular context) as ungainly.
— We had to walk slow because of his wooden clod-hoppers, and that was the way I wanted it now
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United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.
— 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."
- To refer to generally big feet or the foot of a clumsy person.
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A clumsy or foolish person.
— 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.
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A peasant or yokel (countryperson).
— Near-synonyms: bumpkin, hick
- A peasant or yokel (countryperson).; A farmer or plowman.
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Wheatear: any of various passerine birds.
— ...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.
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Compound of clod + hopper (agentive form of the verb hop). Perhaps affected by analogy with grasshopper.
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.
While originating in Britain, the term survives most strongly in Southern/Appalachian speech.
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.
While originating in Britain, the term survives most strongly in Southern/Appalachian speech.
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