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clod-hopping

clod-hopping is the alternative form of clodhopping.

Meaning of clodhopping

Adjective

clodhopping (comparative more clodhopping, superlative most clodhopping)

  1. (informal) boorish; rude or awkward.
    • There is actually at this instant, at the Blue Dragon in this village—an alehouse observe; a common, paltry, low-minded, clodhopping pipe-smoking alehouse—an individual, of whom it may be said, in the language of the Poet, that nobody but himself can in any way come up to him; who is detained there...1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “In which Mr. Chevy Slyme asserts the Independence of his Spirit; and the Blue Dragon loses a Limb”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit...

Forms of clod-hopping

comparativemore clod-hopping
superlativemost clod-hopping

Questions about clod-hopping

What is clod-hopping the alternative form of?
Clod-hopping is the alternative form of clodhopping.

Words near clod-hopping in the dictionary

  1. clocortolone
  2. clocoumarol
  3. clod
  4. clod hopper
  5. clod-hopper
  6. clod-hopping
  7. clodacaine
  8. clodanolene
  9. clodantoin
  10. clodazon
  11. clodcrusher

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