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clodhopper definition

clod·hop·per (kläd′häp′ər)

noun

  1. a plowman
  2. a clumsy, stupid person; lout
  3. a coarse, heavy shoe, like a plowman's

Etymology: clod + hopper, ? by assoc. with grasshopper

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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