Cloddish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Cloddish is an adjective meaning Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial.
Meaning
Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial.
More Meanings
- Of or pertaining to lumpy soil.
Example Sentences
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.
Night-seeding, the tractor's floodlights are blood-red & ovarian - nurturing the cloddish soil, & always the farmer working the wheel, hands gnarled & frostbitten & large.
Synonyms for cloddish
Depending on context, synonyms include stupid, doltish.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include doltish, stupid, clodpated, clottish, clodhopperish, clodded.
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