clodhopper:

(plural: ‘clodhoppers‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)

a clumsy, careless and rough country person; a bumpkin,

a typical clodhopper

e.g.

It was a common sight in rural Ethiopia in the past where a clodhopper, wearing a suit of clothes but wrapped in a ‘gabi’, a blanket-sized thick but soft cotton cloth, drinking beer or a local made drink, talked to you about communism and the USSR in Amharic mixed English.

Though he looks like a clodhopper and even wears a pair of clodhoppers all the time, Sam is educated and kind at heart and never likes to hurt others.

When the travellers lost their way, they stopped at a small village to get some directions, but had to dash away from there as one of the clodhoppers they were talking to pounced on their car demanding money for the directions.

‘Clodhopper’, always in its plural form — ‘clodhoppers‘, is also used for large heavy shoes, usually worn by farmers ploughing their fields or farm labourers at work. Clodhoppers are meant for the places where one has to step on large slippery clods of earth.
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