clodhoppingadj.
Following the plough; pertaining to, or of the nature of, clodhoppers; loutish, boorish.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined
boistousc1300
untheweda1325
uplandisha1387
unaffiled1390
rudea1393
knavishc1405
peoplisha1425
clubbedc1440
blunt1477
lob?1507
robust1511
borel1513
carterly1519
clubbish1530
rough?1531
rustical?1532
incondite1539
agrestc1550
rusticc1550
brute1555
lobcocka1556
loutisha1556
carterlike1561
boorish1562
ruggedc1565
lobbish1567
loutlike1567
sowish1570
clownish1581
unrefined1582
impolished1583
homespun1590
transalpinea1592
swaddish1593
unpolished1594
untutored1595
swabberly1596
tartarous1602
porterly1603
lobcocked1606
lob-like1606
cluster-fisted1611
agrestic1617
inurbane1623
unelevated1627
incult1628
unbrushed1640
vulgar1643
unhewed1644
unsmooth1648
hirsute1658
loutardly1658
unhewn1659
roughsome?c1660
sordid1668
inhumanea1680
coarse1699
brutal1709
ramgunshoch1721
tramontane1740
uncouth1740
no-nationa1756
unurbane1760
turnipy1792
rudas1802
common1804
cubbish1819
clodhopping1828
vulgarian1833
cloddish1844
unkempt1846
bush1851
vulgarish1860
rodney1866
crude1876
ignorant1886
yobby1910
nekulturny1932
oikish1959
yobbish1966
ocker1972
down and dirty1977
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective] > rude or ignorant peasant
bacon-fed1598
hobnailed1599
pezantic1613
municipal1619
hobnail1624
swainish1642
bumpkinly1656
puttish1738
bumpkinish1778
hobbish1823
yokel1823
small-town1824
clodhopping1828
yokelish1886
hick1920
1828 J. K. Paulding New Mirror for Travellers 28 I threw away my clod-hopping shoes and learned to dance.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) vii. 79 A common, paltry, low-minded, clodhopping, pipe-smoking alehouse.
c1854 W. M. Thackeray Wolves & Lamb i. (1869) 340 You little scamp of a clod-hopping ploughboy.
1867 Ch. & State Rev. 12 Jan. 32 Shufflings of clodhopping boots.
Derivatives
clodhopping n. Agricultural labour.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun]
earth-tilthOE
earth-tillingOE
tilling?c1225
delving1377
laboura1393
land-tillingc1420
culturec1450
tilthing1495
labouring1523
manurea1547
manuring1550
digging1552
cultivation1553
tilth1565
manurance1572
agriculture1583
nithering1599
culturation1606
gainor1607
delvage1610
agricolation1623
gainage1625
cultivage1632
manurementa1639
groundwork1655
fieldwork1656
proscission1656
field labour1661
manuragea1670
subduing1776
management1799
subjugation1800
geopony1808
clodhopping1847
agriculturism1885
1847 L. Hunt Jar of Honey (1848) vii. 87 Spenser delights to designate himself as ‘Colin Clout’, as though he were a patch in the heels of clodhopping.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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