clod
pronunciation
How to pronounce clod in British English:
UK [klɒd]
How to pronounce clod in American English:
US [klɑːd]
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- Noun:
- a compact mass
- an awkward stupid person
Word Origin
- clod (n.)
- "lump of earth or clay," Old English clod- (in clodhamer "the fieldfare," a kind of thrush, literally "field-goer"), from Proto-Germanic *kludda-, from PIE *gleu- (see clay). Synonymous with collateral clot until meaning differentiated 18c. Meaning "person" ("mere lump of earth") is from 1590s; that of "blockhead" is from c. 1600 (compare clodpate, clodpoll, etc.). It also was a verb in Middle English, meaning both "to coagulate, form into clods" and "to break up clods after plowing."
Example
- 1. I am very lonely in the clod hue season .
- 2. What a clod he must think I am .
- 3. When I 'm clod , I 'm black .
- 4. Is it clod or warm in autumn ?
- 5. Clod as it was , the workers went on working .