clodhoppers

P'r'aps I ain't got it, after bein' on shore among clodhoppers for two years.

It meant disgrace, defeat; and this fire was as a seal of vassalage affixed to my arms by those I called clodhoppers and serfs.

What was he doing there, with his keen face and worldly, confident carriage, amidst those clodhoppers?

He refers to a Berlin caricature of the scene which was at the time in all the shops, "exciting even the laughter of clodhoppers."

They were all clodhoppers up here, he said, and you could only get any proper polish in the South.