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clodhopping

clodhopping adjective: boorish; rude or awkward.

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...
    • What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane!—a clod-hopping messenger would never do at this juncture.1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter V, in Jane Eyre. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 126–127

Forms of clodhopping

comparativemore clodhopping
superlativemost clodhopping
alternative formclod-hopping

Words formed from clodhopping

Questions about clodhopping

What does clodhopping mean?
Clodhopping means boorish; rude or awkward.
What part of speech is clodhopping?
Clodhopping is an adjective.

Words near clodhopping in the dictionary

  1. Clodfelter
  2. Clodfelters
  3. clodhopper
  4. clodhopperish
  5. clodhoppers
  6. clodhopping
  7. clodhoppingly
  8. clodknocker
  9. clodknockers
  10. clodlet
  11. clodlets

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