clodhopper

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A strong shoe for heavy-duty use; a boot.

   “...who had got on his "hill shoes," as he calls a pair of clodhoppers as thick as a ploughman's, and stuck round with nails.”

2. isim Any shoe construed (within a particular context) as ungainly.

   “We had to walk slow because of his wooden clod-hoppers, and that was the way I wanted it now”

3. isim United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.

   “Smiling Jim Mead of New York tries on his GI clodhopper boots. He decided to return them "because we couldn't make any altitude with those aboard."”

4. isim To refer to generally big feet or the foot of a clumsy person.
5. isim A clumsy or foolish person.

   “All guess-work exploits shrivel up a good yard, or sometimes two, when brought to the measure, and the champion of the county dwindles into a clumsy clod-hopper.”

6. isim A peasant or yokel (countryperson).

   “Near-synonyms: bumpkin, hick”

7. isim A farmer or plowman.
8. isim Wheatear: any of various passerine birds.

   “...and as the birds then begin to resort to the downs and open commons, the "fallow-chat," "wheat-ear," and "clodhopper," are not unappropriate names.”