Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

clod-hopping

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English

Syllables: clod-hop-ping
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of clodhopping.

Example Sentences

"Farmers, with clod-hopping boots, two inches thick, bolted in when the Vicar’s wife was calling, leaving a strong odour of tobacco behind them, and staying just long enough to explain to the affronted Mrs. Meadows, that they “only stepped in about the toithes.”"
"What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane!—a clod-hopping messenger would never do at this juncture."
"I may call Mr. Milliken what I please; but not you, you little scamp of a clod-hopping ploughboy."

Inflected Forms

more clod-hopping (comparative) most clod-hopping (superlative)

Questions

What does clod-hopping mean?: Alternative form of clodhopping.

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