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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

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

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!

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

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)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

clod

[klɒd] n → zolla

clod

(klod) noun

a thick lump, especially of earth.

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It was on one of the couch-burning plots that she laboured with her fork, its four shining prongs resounding against the stones and dry clods in little clicks.

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The earth in the cart, with which the seed was mixed, was not crushed to powder, but crusted together or adhering in clods. Seeing the master, the laborer, Vassily, went towards the cart, while Mishka set to work sowing.

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Clods were handy and the air was full of them in a twinkling.

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If I were to fall from one of these great clods, I should undoubtedly break my neck.' At last, by good luck, he found a large empty snail-shell.

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After the apple and cherry trees broke into bloom, we ran about under them, hunting for the new nests the birds were building, throwing clods at each other, and playing hide-and-seek with Nina.

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"Well, then, suppose he has a few personal enemies in that mob and here and there a man or a woman with a secret grudge against him -- and suppose especially that he is unpopular in the community, for his pride, or his prosperity, or one thing or another -- stones and bricks take the place of clods and cats presently, don't they?"

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But no; with scarcely a pause Lizzie took the leap, stumbled among the rough clods and fell.

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Some of the adults lay prone upon the soft mat of dead and decaying vegetation which covered the ground, while others turned over pieces of fallen branches and clods of earth in search of the small bugs and reptiles which formed a part of their food.

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Not fifty yards away from him something fell in the Park, and all around him lumps of gravel and clods of earth fell in a shower.

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He pelted her with clods and rocks, but she swam steadily on till she got the stick of "giant" in her mouth, when she whirled about and headed for shore.

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It was inconceivable that they should be flinging clods at him.

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