cloddish.
Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial.
Meaning & usage
Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial.
He was a cloddish man, like he'd just fallen off the turnip wagon and hadn't quite woken up yet from his long trip from the country.
Of or pertaining to lumpy soil.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English clod Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English cloddish From clod + -ish.
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