cloddish
adjEtymology From clod + -ish.
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.
- 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
- Derived terms
- cloddishly, cloddishness