† Clumperton

Obs. Also clomperton. [f. CLUMP or CLUMPER: cf. simpleton.] A clown, a clodhopper.

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c. 1534. trans. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (1846), I. 285. Fallinge into … altercation with a stronge stubberne clomperton, he was shrowdlie beaten of him.

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1648. Hexham, Dutch Dict., Een Klocten ofte een Plompaert, a Clowne or a Clumperton.

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1721. Bailey, Clumperton, a clown.

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