1
as in peasants
an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country
a stereotypical depiction of clodhoppers visiting the city for the first time
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2
as in hulks
a big clumsy often slow-witted person
I do not want that clodhopper handling my rare antiques!
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Noun
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The Flyers limp into the Christmas break losers of four of their last five (1-4-0), with their lone win over Columbus on Saturday.—
Kevin Kurz,
The Athletic,
24 Dec. 2024 -
This selective spending behavior has created a clear divide between winners and losers in the consumer and retail space.—
Randy Watts,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
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Cornell University’s Department of Public & Ecosystem Health expert Jenny Bloodgood told NBC News that she’s seen a fox, a skunk, a possum and a bobcat test positive for the virus in New York State, indicating the bug could be mutating.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
27 Feb. 2025
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Medium-sized animals like skunks, bobcats and foxes also did not vanish.—
Anton Sorokin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
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Mantle was the voluble hayseed from Oklahoma who could hit anything but was corrupted by the big city, and wound up undone by alcohol and knee injuries.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
21 June 2024
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Today, the variety shows’ wise-clown hayseeds (overalls, prosthetic teeth, silly hats, no shoes) are the ones who get all the good lines, whose material is distinctive in its political sensibility and cultural hobbyhorses.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper's Magazine,
30 Mar. 2024
Noun
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The next big bad in Jared Leto's motley crew of sinister screen villains has finally been announced.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
21 Dec. 2024
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For others, deep cuts are remembering the names of random Ninja Turtle villains.—
Staff,
The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Dec. 2024
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“Clodhoppers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clodhoppers. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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