clodhopper

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Synonyms for clodhopper

a clumsy, unsophisticated person

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Synonyms for clodhopper

a thick and heavy shoe

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Also, he was active in 4H and was a member of the Clodhoppers group.
The true tales young Danny (Laurie Kynaston) tells are taller than a pair of platform clodhoppers. The funniest being when he, his sister and Plimsolls went to see the controversial West End hippie musical, Hair.
I was reading that wedges are now in fashion for women, but today wedges are clumping great clodhoppers. This wasn't always so.
And I wasn't going to let anyone's crusty old clodhoppers get in the way of a good night out.
How can we occupy the world and destroy its traditionalist cultures, asked Vilsack, if the clodhoppers stop reproducing?
No kiss either, I suspect, for the fashion-challenged wearer of the clunky corrective clodhoppers featured in this Shoe Mart (5) press execution.Which is a shame, because the idea is nice and, after all,"I Quit Smoking with Shoe Mart".
What we need is not more money, but less capital, fewer white shirts and brains, fewer men with business judgment, and more of those fellows who boast that they are just 'ordinary clodhoppers' but they know more in a minute about finance than John Sherman ...
Perhaps reminiscent of Kipling's Just So stories, this collection from award winning New Zealand writer, Cowley covers the interesting and the bizarre from The Horrible Thing with Hairy Feet, to Clodhoppers and Zamforan the Dragon.
One wears clodhoppers and picks like a brick cistern
Rather than clearing the outer-casing of the curved yellow fruitstuff with one mighty, impressive leap, the Bears edged past it only after their clodhoppers came rather too close to it for comfort.
And William Ivey Long brings his impeccable style to costumes ranging from Mullally's '30s society chic to Hensley's patchwork monster duds and platform clodhoppers to the villagers' ethnic garb.