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 of Honey, vii. (1848), 87. Spenser … delights to designate himself as ‘Colin Clout,’ as though he were … a patch in the very heels of clodhopping.
