cloddish adj : heavy and dull and stupid [syn: doltish]

English

Adjective

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”http://www.johnkinsella.org/essays/pastoral.html, 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.

Translations

Boeotian, asinine, beef-brained, beef-witted, blockish, boorish, bovine, carlish, chumpish, churlish, clodhopping, clownish, countrified, country-born, country-bred, cowish, crass, dense, doltish, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, farmerish, fat, from the sticks, gross, hayseed, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hooliganish, ill-bred, ineducable, inurbane, klutzy, loobyish, loutish, lubberly, lumpen, lumpish, oafish, opaque, raffish, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, rube, ruffianly, sottish, stupid, thick, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unteachable, up-country, wrongheaded, yokel, yokelish