Cloddish

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    heavy and dull and stupid wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
stupidasininebeef-brainedbeef-wittedblockishboeotian

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From clod + -ish.

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