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Definition of clodhopper in English: clodhoppernounˈklɒdhɒpəˈklɑdˌhɑpər informal 1A large, heavy shoe. 大而重的鞋子 size-fourteen clodhoppers Example sentencesExamples - Eidolon was too small to help her and the Muse man was laughing too hard, so eventually she stepped on my foot with her big, clodhopper boots.
- Mom bought me an endless array of clodhoppers she cruelly dubbed ‘orthopaedic’, making matters worse.
- I must say that even Phelan, weighted down with his 1930s-era theoretical clodhoppers, runs rings round him.
- Okay okay, I'm sorry, now can we go before Kenny starts hacking at my shins with his clodhoppers again?
- ‘Well, if that's true,’ she replied, ‘then what exactly do those clodhoppers say about you?’
- She sees corporate apathy in size - 12 clodhoppers.
2A foolish, awkward, or clumsy person. 傻瓜；蠢人 the other students looked very young and I felt like a clodhopper Example sentencesExamples - She allowed her smile to fall and she interrupted some clodhopper of a page who seemed to be explaining to her the most boring detailed fencing match.
- Slice the Finals up any way you like, but the Nets, Pistons, Celtics, and the rest of the Eastern clodhoppers stand little or no chance of instilling fear in the Lakers.
- But the study of literature should be left to clodhoppers.
- By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.
- I'm not a big person, mind you, but next to her daintiness I'm a clodhopper with elephantiasis.
- They cannot make a champion athlete out of a clodhopper.
- And his servile easily bewitched audience of clodhopper crusaders will carry on as before.
- The exercise is designed to separate the dim from the deft, the brains from the buffoons, the clever from the clodhoppers.
- If it weren't for that annoying little clodhopper, he'd be mine.
Synonyms lout, boor, barbarian, neanderthal, churl, clown, gawk, hulk, bumpkin, yokel
Definition of clodhopper in US English: clodhoppernounˈklädˌhäpərˈklɑdˌhɑpər informal 1A large, heavy shoe. 大而重的鞋子 size-fourteen clodhoppers Example sentencesExamples - Eidolon was too small to help her and the Muse man was laughing too hard, so eventually she stepped on my foot with her big, clodhopper boots.
- Okay okay, I'm sorry, now can we go before Kenny starts hacking at my shins with his clodhoppers again?
- She sees corporate apathy in size - 12 clodhoppers.
- ‘Well, if that's true,’ she replied, ‘then what exactly do those clodhoppers say about you?’
- I must say that even Phelan, weighted down with his 1930s-era theoretical clodhoppers, runs rings round him.
- Mom bought me an endless array of clodhoppers she cruelly dubbed ‘orthopaedic’, making matters worse.
2A foolish, awkward, or clumsy person. 傻瓜；蠢人 the other students looked very young and I felt like a clodhopper Example sentencesExamples - And his servile easily bewitched audience of clodhopper crusaders will carry on as before.
- By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.
- The exercise is designed to separate the dim from the deft, the brains from the buffoons, the clever from the clodhoppers.
- Slice the Finals up any way you like, but the Nets, Pistons, Celtics, and the rest of the Eastern clodhoppers stand little or no chance of instilling fear in the Lakers.
- I'm not a big person, mind you, but next to her daintiness I'm a clodhopper with elephantiasis.
- They cannot make a champion athlete out of a clodhopper.
- She allowed her smile to fall and she interrupted some clodhopper of a page who seemed to be explaining to her the most boring detailed fencing match.
- But the study of literature should be left to clodhoppers.
- If it weren't for that annoying little clodhopper, he'd be mine.
Synonyms lout, boor, barbarian, neanderthal, churl, clown, gawk, hulk, bumpkin, yokel
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