different between clodhopper vs hick

English

Etymology

Compound of clod +? hopper (agentive form of the verb hop). Perhaps affected by analogy with grasshopper. Attested in the sense of "peasant" since the seventeenth century; the extended sense of "boot" or "shoe" dates from the nineteenth century.

Pronunciation

Noun

clodhopper (plural clodhoppers)

1. A strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot.
   • 1830, Margaret Hundy, "First Epistle from Mrs. Margaret Hundy", The Lady's Magazine:

     ...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.

2. (US) Any kind of shoe.
   • 1959, Claude F. Koch, "A Matter of Family":

     We had to walk slow because of his wooden clod-hoppers, and that was the way I wanted it now

3. (military slang) United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.
   • 1943, "Senators go global: Five will fly to all fronts", LIFE Magazine, August 16:

     Smiling Jim Mead of New York tries on his GI clodhopper boots. He decided to return them "because we couldn't make any altitude with those aboard."

4. A peasant or yokel.
   • 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone, ch. 14:

     'Nephew Jack,' he cried, looking at me when I was thinking what to say, and finding only emptiness, 'you are a heavy lout, sir; a bumpkin, a clodhopper; and I shall leave you nothing, unless it be my boots to grease.'

5. (Britain) A clumsy or foolish person.
   • 1826, P.H. Clias, "Gymnastics", Blackwood's Magazine, Volume XX, No. CXV, August:

     All guess-work exploits shrivel up a good yard, or sometimes two, when brought to the measure, and the champion of the county dwindles into a clumsy clod-hopper.

6. Wheatear; any of various passerine birds.

Synonyms

• clodknocker

Related terms

• clodhopperish

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?k/
• Homophone: hic
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Hick (“pet form of Richard”).

Noun

hick (plural hicks)

1. (derogatory) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person. [from early 18th c.]

Synonyms

• boer, boor
• country bumpkin
• churl
• hillbilly
• lob
• redneck
• rustic
• yokel

Translations

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

hick (third-person singular simple present hicks, present participle hicking, simple past and past participle hicked)

1. to hiccup

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Luxembourgish

Verb

hick

1. second-person singular imperative of hicken