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CLODHOPPER
Definition of CLODHOPPER
noun
A strong shoe for heavy-duty use; a boot. Any shoe construed (within a particular context) as ungainly. United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots. To refer to generally big feet or the foot of a clumsy person.
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Where it comes from
Compound of clod + hopper (agentive form of the verb hop). Perhaps affected by analogy with grasshopper. The term originated in the 17th century as a derogatory name for a farm laborer—someone who "hopped" (stomped) over "clods" of earth; attested in the sense of "peasant" since the seventeenth century; the extended sense of "boot" or "shoe" dates from the nineteenth century. While originating in Britain, the term survives most strongly in Southern/Appalachian speech.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CLODHOPPER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CLODHOPPER starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CDEHLOOPPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and P appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start CLODHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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