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Definition of Cloddish
1. Adjective. Heavy and dull and stupid.
Definition of Cloddish
1. a. Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.
Definition of Cloddish
1. Adjective. Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to lumpy soil. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cloddish
1. clod [adj] - See also: clod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloddish
Literary usage of Cloddish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Psychological Medicine by William Alexander Hammond (1872)
"... cloddish populations are, in short, as I venture to assume, the breeders of
our abstract insanity, while our educated, ambitious, overstraining, ..."