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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-seeding, the tractors floodlights
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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 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 — clod·dish … English syllables
cloddish — adj. loutish, foolish, clumsy. Derivatives: cloddishly adv. cloddishness n … Useful english dictionary
