clodhopper
Plural: clodhoppers
Noun
- a thick and heavy shoe
- A strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot.
- Any shoe construed (within a particular context) as ungainly.
- United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.
- A peasant or yokel.
- A clumsy or foolish person.
- Wheatear: any of various passerine birds.
Origin / Etymology
Compound of clod + hopper (agentive form of the verb hop). Perhaps affected by analogy with grasshopper. Attested in the sense of "peasant" since the seventeenth century; the extended sense of "boot" or "shoe" dates from the nineteenth century.
Synonyms
brogan, brogue, work shoe, clodknocker
Scrabble Score: 20
clodhopper: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordclodhopper: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
clodhopper: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 23
clodhopper: valid Words With Friends Word