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cloddish

[ klod-ish ]

/ ˈklɒd ɪʃ /

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adjective

of, relating to, or resembling a clod or boor; doltish; stolid.

Origin of cloddish

First recorded in 1835–45; clod + -ish¹

OTHER WORDS FROM cloddish

clod·dish·ly, adverb clod·dish·ness, noun

Words nearby cloddish

clockmaker, clockwise, clockwork, clockwork universe, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clodpoll, cloete, clofibrate

Example sentences from the Web for cloddish

It should rather be an expression of his grand unnatural remoteness from the cloddish life.

Crome Yellow |Aldous Huxley
There is something in a moonlit night at sea that must touch in the most cloddish heart a spring of fancy.

The Shoes of Fortune |Neil Munro
Raw-boned, angular, cloddish but as strong as a mule, he towered over her in a maddening atmosphere of proprietorship.

Desert Dust |Edwin L. Sabin
She was no longer a cloddish lump of horseflesh, but an individual, a soul; Gregg's hand fell from his gun.

The Seventh Man |Max Brand

The historian remarks: "The cloddish, shiftless farmer is perhaps safer in Massachusetts."

A Truthful Woman in Southern California |Kate Sanborn