How do you expect me to turn this clumsy clodhopper into an athlete?
Source: tatoeba (7258042)
Clodhopper
//ˈklɑdˌhɑpɚ//
Synonyms for "clodhopper" (71 found)
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12 translations across 7 languages.
French
1 entries- écrase-merde noun (strong, heavy shoe)
German
2 entries- Bauerntölpel noun (clumsy person)
- Scharrhans noun (clumsy person)
Hungarian
1 entries- bakancs noun (strong, heavy shoe)
Irish
2 entries- clabhta noun (clumsy person)
- cábóg noun (clumsy person)
Latin
1 entries- pērō noun (strong, heavy shoe)
Spanish
4 entries- ganso noun (clumsy person)
- paleto noun (clumsy person)
- patoso noun (clumsy person)
- zapatón noun (strong, heavy shoe)
Turkish
1 entries- kıro noun (clumsy person)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
She was such a good dancer she made him feel like a clodhopper.
Source: tatoeba (7258044)
...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.
Source: wiktionary
We had to walk slow because of his wooden clod-hoppers, and that was the way I wanted it now
Source: wiktionary
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