English Dictionary

clodhopper

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈklɑdˌhɑpɚ/

名詞

アメリカ英語 俗語 イギリス英語

A strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot. / (US) Any kind of shoe. / (military slang) United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots. / A peasant or yokel.

日本語の意味

頑丈な作業用ブーツ、重労働に適したしっかりとした靴 / (米国用法) どんな種類の靴にも用いられる / (軍の俗語) 米海軍で使用される、礼服用や戦闘用とは区別される足首丈の作業靴 / 田舎者、素朴な農民

He slipped his foot into a clodhopper and trudged across the muddy field to mend the fence.

彼は頑丈な作業用ブーツに足を入れ、泥だらけの畑をとぼとぼ歩いて柵を直しに行った。

意味（1）

A strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot.

...who had got on his hill shoes, as he calls a pair of clodhoppers as thick as a ploughman's, and stuck round with nails.

意味（2）

(US) Any kind of shoe.

We had to walk slow because of his wooden clod-hoppers, and that was the way I wanted it now

意味（3）

(military slang) United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.

Smiling Jim Mead of New York tries on his GI clodhopper boots. He decided to return them because we couldn't make any altitude with those aboard.

意味（4）

A peasant or yokel.

[…] now a book is no greater rarity than bacon and greens in Virginia; and the clodhopper of this country returns from his daily labours to a book […]

意味（5）

(UK) A clumsy or foolish person.

All guess-work exploits shrivel up a good yard, or sometimes two, when brought to the measure, and the champion of the county dwindles into a clumsy clod-hopper.

意味（6）

Wheatear; any of various passerine birds.

...and as the birds then begin to resort to the downs and open commons, the fallow-chat, wheat-ear, and clodhopper, are not unappropriate names.

clodhoppers （ plural ）