a. [f. as prec.] Following the plow; pertaining to, or of the nature of, clodhoppers; loutish, boorish.
1843. Dickens, Mart. Chuz., vii. A common, paltry, low-minded, clodhopping, pipe-smoking ale-house.
c. 1854. 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.
So Clodhopping sb. Agricultural labor.
1847. L. Hunt, Jar Honey, vii. (1848), 87. Spenser delights to designate himself as ‘Colin Clout,’ as though he were a patch in the heels of clodhopping.
