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Clodhopper

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A farmer, who hops or walks amongst the clods. The cavalry call the infantry clodhoppers, because they have to walk instead of riding horseback.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Clinch
Clinker (Humphrey)
Clio
Clipper
Clipping Pace (A)
Cliquot (of Punch celebrity)
Cloacina
Cloak and Sword Plays
Clock
Clodhopper
Clog Almanac
Cloister
Clootie
Cloridano (in Orlando Furioso)
Clorinda (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Close as a Clam
Close Rolls
Close-time for Game
Closh (Mynherr)
Cloten