Clod

Definition: Clod

Clod

Noun

1. A compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder".

2. An awkward stupid person.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "clod" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Mining

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CLOD

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Synonyms: Clod

Bungler

No conjurer, flat, muff, slow coach, looby, lubber, swab; clod, yokel, awkward squad, blanc-bec; galoot.

Commonalty

Peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon.

Fool

Sawney, gowk; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube; men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham.

Land

Soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot; rock, crag.

Size

Giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows".

Crosswords: Clod

Scottish (a clod), Welsh (fame, praise, renown).

You just hit me with a dirt clod! (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor)

The Clod (1912)

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Books

• A Clod of Wayward Marl (reference)

• Clod Hans (reference)

• Mestrovic in America: Living from the Clod of Croatian Soil Attached to His Roots from My Memories of Amestrovic (reference)

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Removing clod of dirt from plow point on farm near Ralls, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips

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Economic History

Japan

The growth in import demand in 1999 was largely driven by continued strong HRI/HMR demand, particularly from fast food beef bowl chains, hamburger steaks at family restaurants, `yakiniku - Korean style barbecue' at Korean style barbecue chains and beef barbecue lunch box sold at takeout lunch box chains and convenience store chains, including inexpensive frozen beef parts like short plate, brisket and clod. (references)

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Expressions using "clod": clod crusher ♦ clod of earth ♦ clod smasher ♦ frozen clod ♦ stony clod of earth. Additional references.

Beginning with "clod": clod-footed, clod-hopper, clod-hoppers, clod-hopping, clod-poll.

Albanian

mollok (knob, mammock), kufomë (body, cadaver, corpse, stiff), krep (crape, crepe, knob, mammock), kokëtrashë (blockhead, daft, dense, dim witted, dunderhead, fat, fathead, fat-witted, loggerhead, Looby, lubber-head, thick-head, thick-headed, thick-witted), kokëbosh (blinker, blockish, empty headed, fop, pigheaded, rattle-brained, rattle-headed), hedh krepa, budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, gaga, goof, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كل ما هو أرضي وحقير, ‏كتلة تراب (clod of earth). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слепвам се на буци, тленна плът, говежди врат, глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), образувам буци, земя (acres, dirt, earth, estate, geo, ground, land, mainland, mould, soil), замервам с буци, буца пръст (clod of earth, clump), пръст (clay, digit, dirt, earth, finger, hand, marl, mould, soil, toe). (various references)

Czech

hrouda (clod of earth, lump). (various references)

Danish

tilsyneladende haengende (draw roof*, draw slate, following, following clod, following dirt, following stone, ramble), svage lerlag (draw roof*, draw slate, following, following clod, following dirt, following stone, ramble), knold (nodule, root tuber, tuber), klump (lump), jordknold (ball of earth), jordklump. (various references)

Dutch

kluit (chunk, lump), klomp (chunk, lump), prop (chunk, electric plug, lump, plug, stopper), klont (chunk, lump), dot (chunk, lump, tuft), bal (ball, ball-bearing, chunk, dance, globe, lump, palm, sole, testicle). (various references)

Esperanto

bulo (chunk, lump). (various references)

Faeroese

klunkur (chunk, lump). (various references)

Farsi 

کلوخ , لخته (Lobe), خاک (Dirt, Dust, Earth, Grit, Ground, Land, Soil, Terrafirma, Territory), دلمه (Gelatin, Jelly). (various references)

Finnish

kokkare (dumpling, lump). (various references)

French

motte de terre (clod of earth), boule. (various references)

German

scholle (floe, pack, plaice), klumpen (agglutination, chunk, chunkily, clot, clots, clump, clumps, cob, dollop, go lumpy, gob, gobs, lump, nugget). (various references)

Greek 

βώλος (lump). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'ולם (awkward person, boor, dummy, embryo, ignoramus, larva, lubber, lummox, lunkhead, oaf, pupa, robot), �'וש (block, body, bulk, hunk, lump, mass). (various references)

Hungarian

rög (button, clot, lump, nugget, sod), porhüvely (clay), hant (mound), göröngy (clod of earth, lump, nodule), bumfordi ember (clod-hopper). (various references)

Indonesian

gumpalan (agglomeration, clot, clump), gumpal (ball, chock, chunk, clot, clump, gob, wad), bongkah (nugget). (various references)

Italian

zolla (lump, plate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

土塊 (lump of earth), 塊まり (cluster, lump, mass), 塊　 (cluster, lump, mass), 塊 (cluster, lump, mass, mound). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

どかい (lump of earth), つちくれ (lump of earth), かたまり (bundle, cluster, lump, mass). (various references)

Manx

thalloo (country, earth, ground, land, shore, soil, terrain, territory), scraaghey (pare, scraw, squawk, squeal), ceabbey, ceab (clump, lump). (various references)

Pig Latin

odclay.(various references)

Polish

bryła (chunk, lump). (various references)

Portuguese

torrão (cake, chunk, cob, divot, dollop, lump, turf). (various references)

Romanian

cocoloş (ball, clot, growth, grume, Pat, pellet), trup (body, bone, corpus, frame, trunk), tâmpit (addle, addle-brained, awfully, blunt, brain-hampered, chucklehead, crass, daft, dense, dim, donkey, Dotty, duffer, dull, dumb, dumb bell, fiddling, fool, idiot, imbecile, jay, lubber-head, lunkhead, mutt, piffling, pillock, sap, squarehead, stupid, sucker), pãmânt (acre, all over the world, clay, country, dirt, earth, estate, Glebe, ground, land, Mold, mould, property, region, sod, soil, territory, throughout the world), grunz (frozen clod, stony clod of earth), bulgãre (ball, chump, clot, cob, lump), bucatã (article, bar, brick, cut, dollop, fragment, hunk, junk, length, morsel, nub, part, Pat, patch, piece, ribbon, shred, slice, snack, steak, tablet), brazdã (balk, baulk, bed, furrow, list, rut, swath, trace, track, turf, wake), ţãrânã (clay, dust, earth, ground, mould). (various references)

Russian 

ком (ball, globe, lump). (various references)

Scottish

ploc (a large turf, a roud mass, club with a round, mash, pound, strike with a club), fòid (peat, sod, turf). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

klipan (bumpkin, hobbledehoy, loon), grumen (clump, dollop, knob, lob, lump, nub, nugget), grudva (nub, nugget), busen (cluster, greensward, sod, turf). (various references)

Spanish

terrón (divot, lump), bola (ball, balloon, bowl, bull, bullet, chunk, Corker, egg, fib, humbug, lump, marble, pellet, polish, slam, wood). (various references)

Swedish

jordkoka (clod of earth), tölp (boor, churl, clodhopper, clodpoll, clown, gawk, lout, lubber, lummox, yokel), koka (boil, cook, scald, seethe), klump (clog, clot, clump, cob, dollop, hunch, lump). (various references)

Thai

คนโง่ (apeth, berk, birdbrain, bozo, chucklehead, chump, clodpole, div, doughnut, dove, dummy, dunce, featherbrain, fool, half-wit, ignoramus, loon, muddlehead, mug, muggins, muppet, mut, nerd, nincompoop, nit, noddy, oaf, schlepp, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, thicko), �"ิน (dirt, soil). (various references)

Turkish

toprak parçası (homestead, patch, piece of land), sersem (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, dizzy, dope, dozy, dull, dullard, foggy, foolish, giddy, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, muzzy, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, oaf, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, silly, slob, stupid, woozy), kesek (turf), budala (barren, chucklehead, chumpish, clownish, doltish, dreary, dullish, fool, jackass, juggins, noddy, noodle, prune, sappy, simple simon, soft, twit, zany). (various references)

Turkmen 

tokga, lokga (lump). (various references)

Ukrainian

скипатися (clot, curd, earn, yearn), телепень (addle-head, ass, blockhead, boob, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, dunderhead, fathead, gawk, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head), кидати грудками, грудка (clot, clump, gob, lump, nugget), йолоп (banana-head, blunderbuss, boob, calf, caravan, chuckle-head, clot, dimwit, fathead, gawk, loggerhead, mutt, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, numskull, poop, saphead, zany), мертве тіло, згусток (clot), запікатися (clot, coagulate), злежуватися, брила (boulder, clump), прах (ashes, clay), порох (powder), дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, chump, clot, dimwit, dolt, donkey, fool, fop, gander, imbecile, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, stupid, tomfool, you imbecile). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cục (clot, department, junk, knob, lump, piece, service), ruộng đất người quê mùa cục mịch. (various references)

Welsh

priddell. (various references)

lag. (various references)

gleba, glebae, glebas, glebis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "clod": cloddier, cloddiest, cloddish, cloddishness, cloddishnesses, cloddy, clodhopper, clodhoppers, clodhopping, clodpate, clodpates, clodpole, clodpoles, clodpoll, clodpolls, clods. (additional references)

Words containing "clod": cyclodextrin, cyclodextrins, cyclodiene, cyclodienes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Clod" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alod, cadd, cald, caldo, Ccaod, cead, chod, Cildo, ciod, clade, clady, claid, cld, Cled, clede, cledo, clid, clo, Cload, clob, clodde, Clode, Clodgy, cloe, cloi, cloid, clomd, clon, clond, cloo, clor, clou, clow, clowd, Clowdy, clox, cloyd, clu, clud, cluj, clumd, cmod, codd, coldy, colid, coltd, cood, cpld, crod, Ctlo, Ecld, Kclo, klo, klod, Kloyd, kold, koldt, lcd, Ncldo, Nclo, slod. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cold.

-1 letter: cod, col, doc, dol, old.

-2 letters: do, lo, od.

+1 letter: acold, clods, cloud, colds, coled, could, dolce, dolci, scold.

+2 letters: cloddy, cloned, closed, clouds, cloudy, cloyed, coaled, coddle, codlin, coiled, colder, coldly, colead, cooled, cowled, docile, locked, locoed, scolds.

+3 letters: alcoved, becloud, blocked, cabildo, cacodyl, cajoled, calando, caldron, carload, caroled, celadon, cheloid, chlorid, chordal, cladode, cloaked, clocked, clogged, clomped, clonked, clopped, clothed, clotted, clouded, cloured, clouted, clowder, clowned, cobbled, cockled, codable, coddled, coddler, coddles, codicil, codling, codlins, coffled, coldest, coldish, coleads, collard, collide, collied, colloid, collude, colored, condole, condyle, cordial, cotidal, couldst, coupled, cowedly, cuckold, cycloid, daglock, decalog, decolor, dicotyl, diploic, domical, domicil, doucely, eidolic, flocced, flocked, glochid, lingcod, located, loculed, lycopod, melodic, nodical, occlude, oceloid, padlock, pedocal, placoid, policed, scalado, scolded, scolder, scowled, solaced, uncloud, wedlock.