Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a clodhopper; loutish; boorish; treading heavily, as one accustomed to walking on plowed land.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Boorish; rude.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
boorish ;rude
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Examples
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Du Tertre-Jouan was nearly six feet high, and afraid of nobody -- a kind of clodhopping young rustic Hercules, and had proved his mettle quite recently -- when a brutal usher, whom I will call Monsieur
The Martian George Du Maurier 1865
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That being said, girlfriend is still awkwardly clodhopping around, there is zero hip action, and that oversized shawl is doing her no favors.
Dancing with the Stars Episode Recap: Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 2011
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Within seconds of their arrival on stage, it was clear there was an excruciating gulf between ARE Weapons' opinion of themselves – they were nearly herniating themselves trying to be confrontational, to give off a Suicide-like aura of druggy Lower East Side sleaze – and the actual sound they were making, which was simultaneously clodhopping and feeble in the extreme.
The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lows 2011
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Every text reads like a directive; every work is interpreted with clodhopping literalism; all are construed as political messages.
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It´s a good thing you are not a caucasian from the deep southern United States where your region of birth would identify you, no matter who you really were, as an ignorant redneck shoeless clodhopping moonshining poorly educated trailer trash racist pig bigoted xenophobic holy rolling reigious zealot who doesn´t know his ass from a hole in the ground.
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"It´s a good thing you are not a caucasian from the deep southern United States where your region of birth would identify you, no matter who you really were, as an ignorant redneck shoeless clodhopping moonshining poorly educated trailer trash racist pig bigoted xenophobic holy rolling reigious zealot who doesn´t know his ass from a hole in the ground."
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It´s a good thing you are not a caucasian from the deep southern United States where your region of birth would identify you, no matter who you really were, as an ignorant redneck shoeless clodhopping moonshining poorly educated trailer trash racist pig bigoted xenophobic holy rolling reigious zealot who doesn´t know his ass from a hole in the ground.
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It´s a good thing you are not a caucasian from the deep southern United States where your region of birth would identify you, no matter who you really were, as an ignorant redneck shoeless clodhopping moonshining poorly educated trailer trash racist pig bigoted xenophobic holy rolling reigious zealot who doesn´t know his ass from a hole in the ground.
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It´s a good thing you are not a caucasian from the deep southern United States where your region of birth would identify you, no matter who you really were, as an ignorant redneck shoeless clodhopping moonshining poorly educated trailer trash racist pig bigoted xenophobic holy rolling reigious zealot who doesn´t know his ass from a hole in the ground.
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It´s a good thing you are not a caucasian from the deep southern United States where your region of birth would identify you, no matter who you really were, as an ignorant redneck shoeless clodhopping moonshining poorly educated trailer trash racist pig bigoted xenophobic holy rolling reigious zealot who doesn´t know his ass from a hole in the ground.
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