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clodhopper

/klod-hop-er/US // ˈklɒdˌhɒp ər //UK // (ˈklɒdˌhɒpə) //

蛤蚧,蛤蟆跳,蛤蟆跳蛋,蛤蜊

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a clumsy boor; rustic; bumpkin.
    • : clodhoppers, strong, heavy shoes.

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Examples

  • The problem is when you get these big thick clodhopper shoes what ends up happening is you lose that.

  • “I believe you are the young lady who admired that old clodhopper in the picture,” he remarked.

  • It is not the clodhopper, the navvy or the labourer, the careless or the incompetent, who suffer from them.

  • His clodhopper of a father sold firewood to the sweet mother of me!

  • Half clodhopper, half board-school prig, they can still throw back to a nobler stock, and breed yeomen.

  • Come on; it is so like a country clodhopper to stand looking at a big house, as if you had never seen one before.