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clodhopper
noun- a person with big feet; big feet or big shoes UK, 1836 Evoking the image of a ploughman with large, coarse boots.
- [S]o the Negro’s supposed to lie down and let the paddy climb upon his chest with his clodhoppers. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 126, 1967
- — Janey Ironside, A Fashion Alphabet, p. 132, 1968
- He shifts his clodhopper feet as he exhales tension relief to discover her apparently innocent. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Doom Fox, p. 150, 1978
- a clumsy person UK, 1824
- Frol danced with every clodhopper who asked[.] — Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume, p. 38, 1984
- a police officer UK
Rhyming slang for COPPER- “Plod the Clod” now pounds the beat. Or, depending where you live, doesn’t. — Ray Puxley, Fresh Rabbit, 1998
- a copper coin, a penny UK, 1925
Rhyming slang for “copper.” Sometimes shortened to “clod”. - — Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Market Traders’ Slang, 1979
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