clodhopper

Signification (Anglais)

1. A strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot.
2. (US) Any shoe construed (within a particular context) as ungainly.
3. (slang) United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.
4. A peasant or yokel.
5. (UK) A clumsy or foolish person.
6. Wheatear: any of various passerine birds.

Concepts

écrase-merde

Synonymes

brogue

bumpkin

brogan

work shoe

rustic

lout

lummox

rube

slouch

villager

yokel

boor

swabber

clod

countryman

goof

hick

Traductions

zapatón

pataccone

Bauerntölpel

Scharrhans

αγροίκος

χωριάτης

kinkel

pummel

ganso

mastuerzo

paleto

patoso

الفظّ

kıro

borseguí

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈklɑdˌhɑpɚ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Compound of clod + hopper (agentive form of the verb hop). Perhaps affected by analogy with grasshopper. Attested in the sense of "peasant" since the seventeenth century; the extended sense of "boot" or "shoe" dates from the nineteenth century.