clodhopping

• clod-hopping

clodhopping (comparative more clodhopping, superlative most clodhopping)

1. (informal) boorish; rude or awkward.
   • 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, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1844, →OCLC, page 78:

     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 for his bill.

   • 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.

   • 1901, Miles Franklin, “To Life”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 233:

     She greeted me with a smacking kiss, consigned the baby to the charge of the eldest child, a big girl of fourteen, and seizing upon my trunks as though they were feather-weight, with heavy clodhopping step disappeared into the house with them.

   • 2011, Kate Ellis, A Painted Doom:

     a clodhopping mortal who lived on a lower plane of existence.

• clodhopper

• “clodhopping”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.