clodhopper

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

brogue

bumpkin

brogan

work shoe

rustic

lout

lummox

rube

slouch

villager

yokel

boor

swabber

clod

countryman

goof

hick

Translations

pataccone

zapatón

écrase-merde

Scharrhans

αγροίκος

χωριάτης

kinkel

pummel

ganso

mastuerzo

paleto

patoso

الفظّ

kıro

borseguí

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈklɑdˌhɑpɚ/

Etymology

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.