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clod

(klŏd)

1. A lump or chunk, especially of earth or clay.

2. Earth or soil.

3. A dull, stupid person; a dolt.

[Middle English, variant of clot, lump; see clot.]

clod′dish adj.

clod′dish·ly adv.

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clod

(klɒd)

1. a lump of earth or clay

2. earth, esp when heavy or in hard lumps

3. Also called: clodpole, clod poll or clodpate a dull or stupid person

4. (Cookery) a cut of beef taken from the shoulder

[Old English clod- (occurring in compound words) lump; related to cloud]

ˈcloddy adj

ˈcloddish adj

ˈcloddishly adv

ˈcloddishness n

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clod

(klɒd)

n.

1. a lump or mass, esp. of earth or clay.

2. a stupid person; dolt.

3. earth; soil.

[1400–50; late Middle English clodde, Old English clod- (in clodhamer fieldfare)]

clod′dish, adj.

clod′dish•ness, n.

Clod

a mass or lump of any solid matter.

Example: clod of earth, clay, iron, brass, turf.

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Noun	1.	clod - a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" chunk, glob, lump, clump, ball clot, coagulum - a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid agglomeration - a jumbled collection or mass gob - a lump of slimy stuff; "a gob of phlegm" clew - a ball of yarn or cord or thread
	2.	clod - an awkward stupid person gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, stumblebum, lump clumsy person - a person with poor motor coordination

clod

noun lump, piece, block, mass, chunk, clump, hunk a clod of earth from which a mass of thick plant roots protruded

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clod

noun

1. An irregularly shaped mass of indefinite size:

chunk, clump, gob, hunch, lump, nugget, wad.

Informal: hunk.

2. A mentally dull person:

blockhead, chump, dolt, dullard, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, numskull, thickhead.

Slang: dimwit, dumbbell, dumbo.

Translations

كُتْلَه من الطّين

hrouda

klump

Erdklumpen Scholle

buche bûche motte

rög

köggull

zolla

grumstas

kukurzniszemes pika

jordklump leirklump

kesektopak

土块

clod

[klɒd] N

1. [of earth] → terrón m

2. (= person) → patán m, zoquete mf
you clod! → ¡bestia!

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clod

[ˈklɒd] n
a clod of earth → une motte de terre

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

clod

(of earth) → Klumpen m

(fig: = person, also clodpole) → Trottel m; this silly great clod → dieser Obertrottel (inf)

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clod

[klɒd] n → zolla

clod

(klod) noun

a thick lump, especially of earth.

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To learn and discern of his brother the clod, Of his brother the brute, and his brother the God.

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One treated of man as a god, ignoring his earthly origin; the other treated of man as a clod, ignoring his heaven-sent dreams and divine possibilities.

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They journeyed on till it began to be dusky, and then the little man said, 'Let me get down, I'm tired.' So the man took off his hat, and put him down on a clod of earth, in a ploughed field by the side of the road.

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It was as if a clumsy clod had trod upon his toe and he conceived it to be his privilege, his duty, to use deep, resentful oaths.

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In short, we are madly erring, through self-esteem, in believing man, in either his temporal or future destinies, to be of more moment in the universe than that vast "clod of the valley" which he tills and contemns, and to which he denies a soul for no more profound reason than that he does not behold it in operation.

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Man early invented God, often of stone, or clod, or fire, and placed him in trees and mountains and among the stars.

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"They begin by clodding him; and they laugh themselves to pieces to see him try to dodge one clod and get hit with another?"

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"It is vastly wonderful for so stupid a clod to bestride the shoulders of time and ride the eternities."

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I was aroused by a clod of earth striking at my feet.

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To crawl is piggish; but to not crawl, to be as the clod and rock, is loathsome to contemplate.

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In his grasp the veriest clod of earth assumed a soul.

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Poised in her right hand was a third clod, which, seeing that there was now no need for its services, she allowed to fall to the ground.