Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lump or chunk, especially of earth or clay.
- noun Earth or soil.
- noun A dull, stupid person; a dolt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pelt with clods or stones.
- To form into clods.
- To cover with earth, as seeds; harrow.
- To confine in what is earthy and base, as the soul in the body.
- To throw with violence.
- A dialectal variant of
clothe . - noun Any lump or mass; sometimes, a concreted mass; a clot.
- noun Specifically A lump of earth, or earth and turf; a lump of clay.
- noun In coal-mining, indurated clay: the equivalent of bind.
- noun A stretch of ground or turf; earth; soil.
- noun Anything earthy, base, and vile; poetically, the body of man in comparison with his soul: as, “this corporeal clod,”
- noun A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt.
- noun A bait used in fishing for eels, consisting of a bunch of lobworms or earthworms strung on worsted yarn: also called a bob. See
clod-fishing . - noun A butchers' term for a cut of beef from the fore quarter opposite the cross-rib.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot. See
clot . - transitive verb To pelt with clods.
- transitive verb Scot. To throw violently; to hurl.
- noun A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.
- noun The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
- noun That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
- noun A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt.
- noun A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See
Illust. ofBeef .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
lump of something, especially ofearth orclay - noun a
stupid person; adolt - verb transitive To
pelt with clods. - verb transitive, Scotland To
throw violently ; tohurl .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an awkward stupid person
- noun a compact mass
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This CFR-Bilderberger owned clod is just another useful idiot for the New World Order.
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Make him ask forgiveness of Guy; and then, "while little French birds were singing rondels, and as peasants bent over their hoes in clod-like attitudes, or leaned upon their spades to listen to the Angelus, the monk pronounced the words that made Blanche and Guy husband and wife, — or rather, wife and husband."
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Make him ask forgiveness of Guy; and then, "while little French birds were singing rondels, and as peasants bent over their hoes in clod-like attitudes, or leaned upon their spades to listen to the Angelus, the monk pronounced the words that made Blanche and Guy husband and wife, — or rather, wife and husband."
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Why should such gentle hands and feet spend their strength in clod-breaking, when rough ones are at command?
Queechy 1854
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It's true that I haven't heard the word to which Mr Denby is referring -- we'll call it "clod" -- spill from the mouth of an actual American person, as opposed to a movie character, whereas in Britain you need only reach for the last tube of Werther's Originals in the shop to be branded a clod by the seething shopper who's next in line.
New Statesman 2010
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It's true that I haven't heard the word to which Mr Denby is referring -- we'll call it "clod" -- spill from the mouth of an actual American person, as opposed to a movie character, whereas in Britain you need only reach for the last tube of Werther's Originals in the shop to be branded a clod by the seething shopper who's next in line.
New Statesman Ryan Gilbey 2010
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It's true that I haven't heard the word to which Mr Denby is referring -- we'll call it "clod" -- spill from the mouth of an actual American person, as opposed to a movie character, whereas in Britain you need only reach for the last tube of Werther's Originals in the shop to be branded a clod by the seething shopper who's next in line.
New Statesman Ryan Gilbey 2010
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It's true that I haven't heard the word to which Mr Denby is referring -- we'll call it "clod" -- spill from the mouth of an actual American person, as opposed to a movie character, whereas in Britain you need only reach for the last tube of Werther's Originals in the shop to be branded a clod by the seething shopper who's next in line.
New Statesman 2010
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Rick Schmidt’s method of cooking shoulder clod is in Peace, Love, & Barbecue.
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First, before getting to the vermilion itself by methods of treatment, they dig out what is called the clod, an ore like iron, but rather of a reddish colour and covered with a red dust.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
ruzuzu commented on the word clod
"A bait used in fishing for eels, consisting of a bunch of lobworms or earthworms strung on worsted yarn: also called a bob. See clod-fishing."
--Cent. Dict.
July 13, 2012
frogapplause commented on the word clod
I grew up hearing people being called clodhoppers. I had no idea that the word had anything to do with eels, especially since eels are uncommon in Missouri.
Interesting fact: All eels in Missouri are female.
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July 13, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word clod
That's an awesome fact, frog!
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word clod
On Missouri eels revelation in frogapplause comment:
Hence Miss-Ouri?
Miss-Issippi must have 'Ms.ed the boat'?
July 13, 2012