Unscramble

c 3 l 1 o 1 d 2 h 4 o 1 p 3 p 3 e 1 r 1

10 letters · 20 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a thick and heavy shoe

originCompound 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…

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