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Adjective

cloddish ‎(comparative more cloddish, superlative most cloddish)

1. 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.

2. Of or pertaining to lumpy soil.
   • 1980-1994, John Kinsella, ”Night Seeding & Notions of Property”, poem, last five lines:

     Night-seeding, the tractor's floodlights

     are blood-red & ovarian -

     nurturing the cloddish soil, & always

     the farmer working the wheel, hands

     gnarled & frostbitten & large.

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