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English
Adjective
clod-hopping (comparative more clod-hopping, superlative most clod-hopping)
- Alternative form of clodhopping.
1842, Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 289:Farmers, with clod-hopping boots, two inches thick, bolted in when the Vicar’s wife was calling, leaving a strong odour of tobacco behind them, and staying just long enough to explain to the affronted Mrs. Meadows, that they “only stepped in about the toithes.”
1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter V, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. , volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., , →OCLC, pages 126–127:What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane!—a clod-hopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
a. 1864 (date written), W M Thackeray, “The Wolves and the Lamb”, in Catherine: A Story. Little Travels. The Fitz-Boodle Papers. etc. etc. (Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in Twenty-four Volumes; 22), London: Smith, Elder and Co., , published 1869, →OCLC, Act I, page 340:I may call Mr. Milliken what I please; but not you, you little scamp of a clod-hopping ploughboy.