cloddish

English

Etymology

From clod +‎ -ish.

Adjective

cloddish (comparative more cloddish, superlative most cloddish)

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. Of or pertaining to lumpy soil.
   • 1980-1994, John Kinsella, ”Night Seeding & Notions of Property”^[1], 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.

Derived terms

• cloddishly
• cloddishness

 

Translations

a person who is foolish

• Bulgarian: глупав (bg) (glupav), недодялан (bg) (nedodjalan)
• Hungarian: parasztos (hu), nehézkes (hu), esetlen (hu), faragatlan (hu)

of or pertaining to lumpy soil

• Bulgarian: на буци (na buci)
• Hungarian: rögös (hu), göröngyös (hu)