Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stupid fellow; a dolt; a blockhead.
- Stupid; dull; ignorant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stupid fellow; a dolt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
clodpole .
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Examples
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` ` Look ye, '' says he to the governor, rolling his quid of tobacco from one cheek to another -- ` ` look ye, we're after this and that, and if we don't get it, why, I'll tell you plain, we'll burn them bloody crafts of yours that we've took over yonder, and cut the weasand of every clodpoll aboard of 'em.' '
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"Look ye," says he to the governor, rolling his quid of tobacco from one cheek to another -- "look ye, we're after this and that, and if we don't get it, why, I'll tell you plain, we'll burn them bloody crafts of yours that we've took over yonder, and cut the weasand of every clodpoll aboard of 'em."
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Howard Pyle 1882
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"Look ye," says he to the governor, rolling his quid of tobacco from one cheek to another -- "look ye, we're after this and that, and if we don't get it, why, I'll tell you plain, we'll burn them bloody crafts of yours that we've took over yonder, and cut the weasand of every clodpoll aboard of 'em."
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main Howard Pyle 1882
rolig commented on the word clodpoll
see also clotpoll.
June 17, 2008
joan_w commented on the word clodpoll
Merlin called Arthur a clodpoll on Merlin, season 2, episode 1.
September 12, 2010