clodhopper

noun8

1. •
   A strong shoe for heavy-duty use; a boot.

   • ...who had got on his "hill shoes," as he calls a pair of clodhoppers as thick as a ploughman's, and stuck round with nails. — 1830
2. •
   Any shoe construed (within a particular context) as ungainly.

   • We had to walk slow because of his wooden clod-hoppers, and that was the way I wanted it now — 1959
3. •
   (slang) United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.

   • Smiling Jim Mead of New York tries on his GI clodhopper boots. He decided to return them "because we couldn't make any altitude with those aboard." — 1943
4. •
   A clumsy or foolish person.

   • All guess-work exploits shrivel up a good yard, or sometimes two, when brought to the measure, and the champion of the county dwindles into a clumsy clod-hopper. — 1826
5. •
   (disapproving) A peasant or yokel (countryperson).
6. •
   To refer to generally big feet or the foot of a clumsy person.
7. •
   Wheatear: any of various passerine birds.

   • ...and as the birds then begin to resort to the downs and open commons, the "fallow-chat," "wheat-ear," and "clodhopper," are not unappropriate names. — 1834
8. •
   (disapproving, no longer used) A farmer or plowman.