cloddish
cloddish adjective: like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial.
Adjective
cloddish (comparative more cloddish, superlative most cloddish)
- 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.
- 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
- Night-seeding, the tractor's floodlights
cloddish meaning in Hindi and Urdu
cloddish in Hindi
- cloddish; gruff; impolite; boorish; vulgar
- उजड्ड ujaḍḍ
cloddish in Urdu
- cloddish, gruff, impolite, boorish, vulgar
- اجڈ ujaḍḍ
Forms of cloddish
| comparative | more cloddish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cloddish |
Origin of cloddish
From clod + -ish.
Words formed from cloddish
Questions about cloddish
- What does cloddish mean?
- Cloddish means like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial.
- What is cloddish in Hindi?
- Cloddish in Hindi is उजड्ड (ujaḍḍ). See Cloddish meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cloddish?
- Cloddish is an adjective.
Words near cloddish in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cloddish (page history and authors); उजड्ड (Hindi) (page history and authors); اجڈ (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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