- cloddish
- clod·dish
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cloddish
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Cloddish — Clod dish, a. Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne. {Clod dish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
cloddish — index inelegant, opaque Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
cloddish — adjective a) Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial. He was a cloddish man, like hed just fallen off the turnip wagon and hadnt quite woken up yet from his long trip from the country. b) Of or pertaining to lumpy soil. Night… … Wiktionary
cloddish — adjective see clod … New Collegiate Dictionary
cloddish — cloddishly, adv. cloddishness, n. /klod ish/, adj. of, pertaining to, or resembling a clod or boor; doltish; stolid. [1835 45; CLOD + ISH1] * * * … Universalium
cloddish — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, asinine, beef brained, beef witted, blockish, boorish, bovine, carlish, chumpish, churlish, clodhopping, clownish, countrified, country born, country bred, cowish, crass, dense, doltish, dullard, dumb,… … Moby Thesaurus
cloddish — adj. full of lumps of earth; stupid … English contemporary dictionary
cloddish — adjective foolish, awkward, or clumsy. Derivatives cloddishly adverb cloddishness noun … English new terms dictionary
cloddish — adj awkward, clumsy, inept, maladroit, heavy handed, blundering, bungling, gawky or gawk ish, like a bull in a china shop, Inf. butterfingered, Sl. klutzy; loutish, oafish, doltish, lumpish, lumpen, clod hopping, clownish, lubberly; obtuse,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
cloddish — adj. loutish, foolish, clumsy. Derivatives: cloddishly adv. cloddishness n … Useful english dictionary
