Meanings
comparative more clod-hopping · superlative most clod-hopping
- alternativeAlternative form of clodhopping.
I may call Mr. Milliken what I please; but not you, you little scamp of a clod-hopping ploughboy.
a. 1864 (date written), W[illiam] M[akepeace] 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 3402 more examples
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.”
1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 289What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane!—a clod-hopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter V, in Jane Eyre. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 126–127
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