cloddish
English
Etymology
clod + -ish
Adjective
cloddish (comparative more cloddish, superlative most cloddish)
- 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.
- Of or pertaining to lumpy soil.
- 1980-1994, John Kinsella, ”Night Seeding & Notions of Property”, poem, last five lines:
- 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:
Translations
a person who is foolish
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of or pertaining to lumpy soil
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