英语词汇clodhopper的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	clodhopper
词源	clodhopper; country bumpkin; hayseed; hick; rube. Clod- hopper, before it became a word for “shoes,” was an old 17th- century English term for a farmer or rural dweller who hopped over clods of dirt in the fields. Country bumpkin, from the Dutch boomkin, “little tree,” became common in En- gland a century later. Rube (from “Rustic Rueben”), hick (a pet name for “Richard”) and hayseed are 19th-century Americanisms.
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