clodhopping
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See also: clod-hopping
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clodhopping (comparative more clodhopping, superlative most clodhopping)
- (informal) boorish; rude or awkward.
- 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “In which Mr. Chevy Slyme asserts the Independence of his Spirit; and the Blue Dragon loses a Limb”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 78:
- There is actually at this instant, at the Blue Dragon in this village—an alehouse observe; a common, paltry, low-minded, clodhopping pipe-smoking alehouse—an individual, of whom it may be said, in the language of the Poet, that nobody but himself can in any way come up to him; who is detained there for his bill.
- 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter V, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 126–127:
- What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane!—a clod-hopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
- 1901, Miles Franklin, “To Life”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 233:
- She greeted me with a smacking kiss, consigned the baby to the charge of the eldest child, a big girl of fourteen, and seizing upon my trunks as though they were feather-weight, with heavy clodhopping step disappeared into the house with them.
- 2011, Kate Ellis, A Painted Doom:
- a clodhopping mortal who lived on a lower plane of existence.
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- “clodhopping”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.