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- noun pejorative a
stupid person;blockhead
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Examples
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"This letter, being so excellently ignorant ... it comes from a clodpole."
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Now will not I deliver his letter: for the behavior of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good capacity and breeding; his employment between his lord and my niece confirms no less: therefore this letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a clodpole.
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The learned professions, or black arts, lost at least ninety-five per cent in importance; and so rapid as been the increase of the evil, that, at this time of day, it is a hard matter to impose on any clodpole in Europe!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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The doors are then thrown open, and the lucky clodpole receives the tit-bit as his recompence.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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'You filthy clodpole!' he said, rising from his place and thrusting a prognathous jaw and blazing eyes half-way across the table.
VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray
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Now will not I deliver his letter: for the behaviour of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good capacity and breeding; his employment between his lord and my niece confirms no less: therefore this letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a clodpole.
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Show the dullest clodpole, show the haughtiest featherhead, that a soul higher than himself is actually here; were his knees stiffened into brass, he must down and worship.
Paras. 1-24 1909
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"Thou fightest like a clodpole," said the old man.
Men of Iron 1891
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A lourdeau, my dear brother, is as we might say a bumpkin, a clown, a clodpole: a fellow without grace, lightness, quickness; any gift of pleasing, any natural brilliancy: such a one as you shall see, when you desire, by looking in the mirror.
Account of All That Passed on the Night on February 27th, 1757 1889
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"Thou fightest like a clodpole," said the old man.
Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882
reesetee commented on the word clodpole
Almost as good as squarehead. :-)
April 29, 2008
mollusque commented on the word clodpole
"I've turned invisible, as any clodpole with half an ounce of sense can plainly see," snorted Doli.
--Lloyd Alexander, 1968, The High King
April 29, 2008
rolig commented on the word clodpole
see also clotpoll.
June 17, 2008
yarb commented on the word clodpole
On the very next morning, a sort of clodpole, with a portmanteau across his shoulders, knocked at the door of Florence's father.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 5 ch. 1
September 19, 2008