cloddish en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English clod Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English cloddish From clod + -ish.
Meanings
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Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial.
He was a cloddish man, like he'd just fallen off the turnip wagon and hadn't quite woken up yet from his long trip from the country.
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Of or pertaining to lumpy soil.
Night-seeding, the tractor's floodlights are blood-red & ovarian - nurturing the cloddish soil, & always the farmer working the wheel, hands gnarled & frostbitten & large.
1980-1994, John Kinsella, ”Night Seeding & Notions of Property”, poem, last five lines
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more cloddish | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most cloddish | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (9)
bg недодялан (a person who is foolish) · hu nehézkes (a person who is foolish) · hu esetlen (a person who is foolish) · bg на буци (of or pertaining to lumpy soil) · hu göröngyös (of or pertaining to lumpy soil) · hu faragatlan (a person who is foolish) · hu parasztos (a person who is foolish) · bg глупав (a person who is foolish) · hu rögös (of or pertaining to lumpy soil)