clodhopper
Clumsy rural person
A clodhopper is a large, heavy shoe or boot—the kind that might tramp over clods of earth in a field.
The word extends to the person wearing such footwear: a rustic, unsophisticated person, especially a clumsy farmer or country bumpkin.
Get your clodhoppers off the couch.
Unsophisticated country dweller
- hillbillyRural mountain dweller stereotype
- hayseedSlang for rustic person
- yokelNaïve rural person
- rubeNaive country person
hick · peasant · villager · farmer · plowman · provincial · backwoodsman · boor
Lacking grace or ease
- bumblingClumsily incompetent
- blunderingActing with clumsy incompetence
- ungainlyLacking ease of movement
- lumberingMoving heavily and awkwardly
oafish · gawky · fumbling · stumbling · uncoordinated · clunky · ham-handed · heavy-footed
bumpkin
Unsophisticated country dweller
rube · hick · peasant · villager · farmer · plowman · provincial · backwoodsman · boor · churl
awkward
Lacking grace or ease
- bumblingClumsily incompetent
- blunderingActing with clumsy incompetence
- ungainlyLacking ease of movement
lumbering · oafish · gawky · fumbling · stumbling · uncoordinated · clunky · ham-handed · heavy-footed · maladroit
boot
High shoe or startup
clodhoppersophisticate
Worldly, cultured person
cosmopolitan · urbanite · city slicker · man of the world · woman of the world