Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A clodpoll; a blockhead.
  • noun A head: used contemptuously.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete See clodpoll.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of clodpole.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word clotpoll.

Examples

  • She should speedily learn the difference between the assistance of a gentleman and that of a clotpoll!

    Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

  • September 24th, 2008 at 8: 54 am clotpoll, i was intrigued with TD taking over Commerce.

    New Jersey Real Estate Report 2008

  • September 24th, 2008 at 8: 38 am clotpoll wrote: "By selling garbage at Tiffany prices, these firms will re-capitalize themselves - at our expense - and once again fire up the mechanisms that allow for the creation of debt, with the debt and its adverse consequences separated from the debtor."

    New Jersey Real Estate Report 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • "Clotpoll is a venerable word for a blockhead or dolt. Clot is allied etymologically to clod, and poll, of course, means the head. That’s why we have political polls, which count heads. And clotpolls trust them."

    – John McIntyre, Baltimore Sun copy-editor extraordinaire, on his blog: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/

    This is Samuel Johnson's spelling, but the word also appears as clodpoll and clodpole.

    January 3, 2008