clodhopper
Oznaczający (Angielski)
- A strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot.
- (US) Any shoe construed (within a particular context) as ungainly.
- (slang) United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.
- A peasant or yokel.
- (UK) A clumsy or foolish person.
- Wheatear: any of various passerine birds.
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Wymawiane jako (IPA)
/ˈklɑdˌhɑpɚ/
Etymologia (Angielski)
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.
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