clodhoppers

noun

plural of clodhopper
1
as in peasants
an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country a stereotypical depiction of clodhoppers visiting the city for the first time

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2
as in hulks
a big clumsy often slow-witted person I do not want that clodhopper handling my rare antiques!

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  1. peasants
  2. hulks
  3. clowns
  4. lumps
  5. hicks
  6. losers
  7. yokels
  8. idiots
Noun
  • Happy peasants, miserable millionaires Graham first spotted the pattern in China.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • For the medieval peasants whose skeletons limned the walls, death was a prolonged nap until everyone woke up during the rapture.
    — Kristin Idaszak, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of peasants
Noun
  • Instead, fog clung to every nook and crevice of the glacial hulks surrounding us.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Water levels on the Danube River, the second longest in Europe, have dropped so low because of drought that the hulks of dozens of World War II German battleships — and even the remains of an ancient woolly mammoth — are emerging into view.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of hulks
Noun
  • Gacy painted over a thousand pictures, many of clowns, while on death row in the 1980s and 1990s.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The weekend kicks off in earnest with the annual zombie walk, which this year also features clowns.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of clowns
Noun
  • The longer the sweet potatoes heat in the Dutch oven, the more the lumps will soften.
    — Candy Hom, AJC.com, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Morton kosher salt in food processor until no lumps remain, about 1 minute.
    — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of lumps
Noun
  • So a bunch of hicks from Topeka were left up to our own devices of going down to Robert Hall and finding something that might be kind of cool.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of hicks
Noun
  • Memory and chip firms SanDisk, Western Digital, AMD, Seagate and Micron were the index’s biggest losers, all plunging around 10%.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The losers would likely prefer to continue attacking their opponents with mud-slinging ads filled with lies.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of losers
Noun
  • Lisa lets a dolphin named Snorky escape from Marine World after seeing his trainers taunt him for the amusement of slack-jawed yokels.
    — Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026
  • It was left to the feds in Boston to arrest Farwell, after Meatball’s local yokels adamantly refused to do anything other than try to broom the crime by one of their own.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
Definition of yokels
Noun
  • Speaking of idiots, look who's about to return to the States.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Eleven gullible idiots were talked into acquitting because of an imaginary female ailment.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026
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“Clodhoppers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clodhoppers. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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