clodhopper

Meaning

Noun

• A strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot.
• Any kind of shoe.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• clodknocker

Origin

• 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.