clodhopper
英式音标：clodhopper怎么读
美式音标：clodhopper怎么读
近义词： ox
clodhopper词义
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n. 乡下佬；粗人；大而重的鞋
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复数: clodhoppers;
clodhopper英文词源
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- clodhopper (n.)
- 1690s, slang, "one who works on plowed land, a rustic," from clod (n.) + agent noun from hop (v.). Compare in a similar sense clod-breaker, clod-crusher; in this word perhaps a play on grasshopper. Sense extended by 1836 to the shoes worn by such workers.