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cloddily

cloddily adverb: in a cloddy manner.

Adverb

cloddily (comparative more cloddily, superlative most cloddily)

  1. In a cloddy manner.
    • If the weather be wet while the turnips are feeding off, the ground breaks up very cloddily: in which case, if the roller does not reduce the clods, it will require to be stirred again and again with the plough […]1839, James Main, The Young Farmer's Manual, page 64

Forms of cloddily

comparativemore cloddily
superlativemost cloddily

Origin of cloddily

From cloddy + -ly.

Questions about cloddily

What does cloddily mean?
Cloddily means in a cloddy manner.
What part of speech is cloddily?
Cloddily is an adverb.

Words near cloddily in the dictionary

  1. clodcrusher
  2. clodcrushers
  3. clodded
  4. cloddier
  5. cloddiest
  6. cloddily
  7. cloddiness
  8. clodding
  9. cloddings
  10. cloddish
  11. cloddishly

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