Clodhopping

Clodhopping
Clodhopping Clod"hop`ping, a. Boorish; rude. --C. Bront['e]. [1913 Webster]

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  • clodhopping — adjective Date: 1787 boorish, rude …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • clodhopping — /klod hop ing/, adj. loutish; boorish. [1835 45; CLODHOPP(ER) + ING2] * * * …   Universalium

  • clodhopping — n. awkward, rude …   English contemporary dictionary

  • clodhopping — clod·hop·ping …   English syllables

  • clodhopping — /ˈklɒdhɒpɪŋ/ (say klodhoping) adjective loutish; boorish …  

  • clodhopping — adj. = CLODDISH …   Useful english dictionary

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  • boorish — Synonyms and related words: all thumbs, awkward, barbarian, barbaric, blunderheaded, blundering, bucolic, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, caddish, careless, carlish, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, clumsy fisted, coarse,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • churlish — Synonyms and related words: abrupt, aggressive, bearish, beastly, bitchy, bluff, blunt, boorish, brash, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, carlish, cavalier, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, coarse, countrified, country born, country bred, crabbed …   Moby Thesaurus

  • cloddish — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, asinine, beef brained, beef witted, blockish, boorish, bovine, carlish, chumpish, churlish, clodhopping, clownish, countrified, country born, country bred, cowish, crass, dense, doltish, dullard, dumb,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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