clodhopper

1. A large shoe. I can't wear those clodhoppers—I'll look like a clown! You have a small foot, so those shoes look cute and dainty on you. In my size, they would be clodhoppers! Oh, those clodhoppers are my brother's. He's a size 13!

2. One who is regarded as stupid, boorish, and bumbling. Of course that clodhopper knocked over the whole display after being here just five minutes! Why do you have to be such a clodhopper, Jerry? Can't you act with a little bit of tact and common sense? I felt like a total clodhopper after realizing that what I'd said had come across as so offensive.

clodhopper

1. n. a big shoe. Wipe the mud off those clodhoppers before you come in here.

2. n. a stupid person; a rural oaf. You don’t know it, but that clodhopper is worth about two million bucks.

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