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A.Word.A.Day--clodhopper clodhopper (KLOD-hop-uhr) noun 1. A clumsy, awkward fellow. 2. A strong, heavy work shoe. [Apparently modeled after grasshopper: clod + hopper.] Look up clodhopper in Visual Thesaurus. "They (drugs) cannot make a champion athlete out of a clodhopper. Winners still need the legs, the lungs and, above all, the heart to succeed." Mick Hume; Let's Inject Some Sense Into This; The Times (London, UK); Oct 27, 2003. "Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a good shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree--and there will be one." Aldo Leopold, conservationist (1887-1948). X-Bonus Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. -Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)

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