clod

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːd
• (UK) IPA: /klɒd/ X-SAMPA: /klQd/
• Rhymes: -ɒd

Noun

clod (plural clods)

1. a lump of something, especially of earth or clay
   • 2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest

     "What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.

2. a stupid person; a dolt

Translations

lump of something, especially of earth or clay

• Bulgarian: буца (bg) (buca) f
• Finnish: paakku (fi)
• French: motte (fr) f
• German: Klumpen m, Erdklumpen m (earth)
• Portuguese: torrão (pt) m

• Romanian: bulgăre (ro) m
• Scottish Gaelic: fòid (gd) f
• Spanish: grumo (es) m, cúmulo (es), mazacote (es)
• Swedish: (jord-)klump c, (jord-)koka c

stupid person

• Bulgarian: глупак (bg) (glupak) m
• Finnish: nuija (fi)

• French: (figuratively) cruche (fr) f
• German: Trottel (de) m

Verb

clod (third-person singular simple present clods, present participle clodding, simple past and past participle clodded)

1. (transitive) To pelt with clods.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jonson to this entry?)

2. (transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

3. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.

   clodded gore

   • G. Fletcher

     Clodded in lumps of clay.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• cold