cloddish

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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.
    — Night-seeding, the tractor's floodlights are blood-red & ovarian - nurturing the cloddish soil, & always the farmer working the wheel, hands gnarled & frostbitten & large.

词形变化

more cloddish comparative most cloddish superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
cloddishly cloddishness

词源

Etymology tree
English clod
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English cloddish
From clod + -ish.
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