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      • clodpole (pl. clodpoles) (pejorative) a stupid person; blockhead c. 1600:, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or What You Will...this letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a clodpole. 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 4, chapter VI, The Landed
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  2. noun. clod· poll ˈkläd-ˌpōl. variants or clodpole. Synonyms of clodpoll. : blockhead. Synonyms. airhead. birdbrain. blockhead. bonehead. bubblehead. chowderhead. chucklehead. clot [ British] cluck. clunk. cretin. cuddy [ British dialect] cuddie. deadhead. dim bulb [ slang] dimwit. dip. dodo. dolt.

  3. clodpole. A dull or stupid person.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.

  4. Examples. Automatically generated practical examples in English: Harum-scarum, clodpole young lairds of the neighbourhood paid him the compliment of a visit. Young Hay of Romanes rode down to call, on his crop-eared pony; young Pringle of Drumanno came up on his bony grey.

  5. 1. a lump of earth or clay. 2. earth, esp when heavy or in hard lumps. 3. Also called: clodpole, clod poll or clodpate a dull or stupid person. 4. (Cookery) a cut of beef taken from the shoulder. [Old English clod- (occurring in compound words) lump; related to cloud] ˈcloddy adj. ˈcloddish adj. ˈcloddishly adv. ˈcloddishness n.

  6. Synonyms for CLODPOLL: mutt, donkey, stupid, goose, idiot, saphead, dumb cluck, dim bulb; Antonyms of CLODPOLL: brain, genius, sage, intellect, intellectual, thinker, wizard, whiz.

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  8. Sep 29, 2022 · clodpole (plural clodpoles) ( derogatory) a stupid person; blockhead.

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