Word Meanings - CLODHOPPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rude, rustic fellow.

CLOWNAGE
Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.
CLOWN
Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child
CLOWNISH
Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic;
CLOWNISHNESS
The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
LOOBY
An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. Swift.
CLOWNERY
Clownishness. L'Estrange.
CLODHOPPER
A rude, rustic fellow.