cloddish

== English == === Etymology === From clod + -ish. === Adjective === cloddish (comparative more cloddish, superlative most cloddish) Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial. Of or pertaining to lumpy soil. 1980-1994, John Kinsella, ”Night Seeding & Notions of Property”[1], 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. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ====