† clumperton Obs.
Also clomperton.
[f. clump or clumper: cf. simpleton.]
A clown, a clodhopper.
| c 1534 tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 285 Fallinge into..altercation with a stronge stubberne clomperton, he was shrowdlie beaten of him. 1648 Hexham Dutch Dict., Een Klocten ofte een Plompaert, a Clowne or a Clumperton. 1721 Bailey, Clumperton, a clown. |