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Clodhopper

noun

A thick and heavy shoe. Synonyms: brogan, brogue, work shoe.

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"Clodhopper" Quotes from Famous Books

... figure in the foreground: Caliban Malvolio. And it seems to me as if, in the persons of these brothers-in-law, we had the two sides of rusticity fairly well represented: the hunter living really in nature; the clodhopper living merely out of society: the one bent up in every corporal agent to capacity in one pursuit, doing at least one thing keenly and thoughtfully, and thoroughly alive to all that touches it; the other in the inert and bestial state, walking ...

— The Silverado Squatters • Robert Louis Stevenson

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... your voice like? It rattles like a saucepan. I bet you were boozing yesterday! That's what it is! Your breath smells like a tavern. . . . E-ech! You are a clodhopper, brother! You are a lout! How can you be a chorister if you keep company with peasants in the tavern? Ech, ...

— Love and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

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... a finger," said Sir Tancred firmly, "for two reasons. One, Bumpkin Wigram helped my stepmother spoil my early life; two, if this bounder Courtnay has got round Bumpkin words would be wasted. Bumpkin is as dense and as obstinate as any clodhopper who ever chawed bacon." ...

— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson

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Words linked to "Clodhopper" : shoe