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clod en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /klɒd/ (UK)
  • /klɑd/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English clod, a late by-form of clot, from Old English clot, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“mass, ball, clump”). Compare clot and cloud; cognate to kloot (“clod”). Alternatively, Middle English clod may derive from Old English *clod (found in Old English clodhamer (“a kind of thrush”) and Clodhangra (a placename)), from Proto-West Germanic *kloddō (“lump, clod”), from *gel- (“to ball up, become lumpy”), related to West Frisian klodde (“clod, lump”), Dutch klodde (“lump, blob”).

Meanings

  1. A lump of something, especially earth or clay.
    • clods of iron and brass 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
    • One of the clods took it back of the ear, and it used language. It gave me a thrill, for it was the first time I had ever heard speech, except my own. 1906, Mark Twain, Eve's Diary:
    • The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
    • "What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed. 2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest:
    • 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), originally published in 1581 by Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered clods of blood
    • As for yon clod of clay, we will bury it later, lest it should pollute so goodly a pool. 1903, Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine:
  2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
    • the clod where once their sultan's horse hath trod 1723, Jonathan Swift, Pethox the Great:
  3. A stupid person, a dolt, a clodpate, a clodhopper.
    • The vulgar, a scarce animated clod 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act I, page 3:
    • 'What was its number?' 'I don't know, sir.' 'You clod! Why didn't you call one of our men, whoever was nearest, and leave him to shadow the American while you followed the cab?' 1906, Robert Barr, The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont:
    • Peridot: Don't touch that! You clods don't know what you're doing! 2015, "Jail Break" (episode of Steven Universe TV series)
    • Gerald Broflovski: You see Kyle, we humans work as a society, and in order for a society to thrive, we need gods and clods. 1998, Chickenpox (episode of South Park TV series)
    • So here's a valentine for you, you insensitive clod!! 1986 February 14, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes:
  4. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

Forms

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clods Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

clodhopper · cloddish · clodlet · cloddy · clodpole · clodhopping · clodcrusher · clodpate · clodpated

Holonyms

chuck

Relateds

chuck roll

Translations (68)

sk hruda (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · fr motte (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · it zolla (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · es gleba (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · mi peipei (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · ru о́лух (stupid person) · fi paakku (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · bg буца (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · de Trottel (stupid person) · es grumo (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · ru глы́ба (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · de Klumpen (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · grc βῶλος (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · gl toutizo (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · gd fòid (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · it gleba (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · ru дура́к (stupid person) · sv jordklump (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · fi nuija (stupid person) · bn ঢিল (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · pl grudka (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · ca gleva (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · enm clod (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · ru глупе́ц (stupid person) · ca terròs (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · eo bulo (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · nl klont (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · cs hňup (stupid person) · ru ком (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · sk trdlo (stupid person) · es tonta (stupid person) · bg земя (ground, a spot of earth or turf) · he טמבל (stupid person) · bg плешка (part of a shoulder or neck of beef) · fr andouille (stupid person) · gl terrón (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · ro bulgăre (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · sv koka (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · izh koma (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · fi maa (ground, a spot of earth or turf) · nl kluit (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · mi paioneone (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · fi tanner (ground, a spot of earth or turf) · fa کلوخ (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · la glaeba (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · ga daba (stupid person) · es tonto (stupid person) · es terrón (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · pt cachaço (part of a shoulder or neck of beef) · pt torrão (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · he רֶגֶב (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · it tonto (stupid person) · cs hrouda (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · it tonta (stupid person) · bg глупак (stupid person) · cs blb (stupid person) · ru ду́рень (stupid person) · grc βῶλαξ (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · mi pokuru (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · mi pōkurukuru (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · de Erdklumpen (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · sv klump (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · fr cruche (stupid person) · enm clot (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · sv jordkoka (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · it piota (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · nl klomp (lump of something, especially of earth or clay) · mi poikurukuru (lump of something, especially of earth or clay)

clod en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /klɒd/ (UK)
  • /klɑd/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English clod, a late by-form of clot, from Old English clot, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“mass, ball, clump”). Compare clot and cloud; cognate to kloot (“clod”). Alternatively, Middle English clod may derive from Old English *clod (found in Old English clodhamer (“a kind of thrush”) and Clodhangra (a placename)), from Proto-West Germanic *kloddō (“lump, clod”), from *gel- (“to ball up, become lumpy”), related to West Frisian klodde (“clod, lump”), Dutch klodde (“lump, blob”).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To pelt with clods.
    • "When I went there yesterday evening in the gloaming it had crept down and was trying to catch the little speckled fishes that play in the pool, and I had to clod it to make it go up the tree again and let them alone." 1906, Mark Twain, Eve's Diary:
    • when I came out and started to hoist it to the mule's back they rushed at me and jerked my suspenders down and then they clodded me with chunks of dirt 1959, Louis L'Amour, The First Fast Draw:
  2. (Scotland, transitive) To throw violently; to hurl.
    • "So, sir, she grippit him, and clodded him like a stane from the sling ower the craigs of Warroch-head" 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
  3. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
    • Clodded in lumps of clay. 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph:

Forms

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clodding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
clodded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
clodded Tense=Past lexicographic
clods Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic