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Cloddish

Cloddish \Clod"dish\, a. Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.
--Hawthorne. -- Clod"dish*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cloddish

1844, from clod (n.) + -ish. Related: Clodishly; clodishness.

Wiktionary
cloddish

a. 1 Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial. 2 Of or pertaining to lumpy soil.

WordNet
cloddish

adj. heavy and dull and stupid [syn: doltish]

Usage examples of "cloddish".

Mia smiled at Syd again, friendly but curious, taking in her shapeless linen jacket, her baggy khaki pants, her cloddish boots and the mannish blouse she wore buttoned all the way to her neck.

Then I was like a bird, using the wind like the current of a stream, delighting in almost total freedom, but now I was simply a passenger riding in a basket beneath whirling blades, and I silently chided myself for being too cloddish to appreciate properly an experience that was very close to being miraculous.

The other was occupied by a couple of cloddish farmer types who seemed bound for an even more distantand pitifuldestination than Geiststadt.

So did his cloddish twin brother, Jonathan, whose idea of a good time was chasing butterflies through the swamp.

Prince Antar saw the cloddish knight Rinutar go stomping across one of the catwalks that circled a great wooden fermentation vat.

Stones are cloddish weapons, without grace or beauty, but they function.

Are all the men referred to above ordinary and ignorant cloddish males?

He appears cloddish, foolish, unnatural as he moves in unfamiliar ways traversing new ground.

I took the chair across from her, feeling cloddish, afraid that my very size would cause me to break something.