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Definition of Clodpate
1. n. A blockhead; a dolt.
Definition of Clodpate
1. Noun. A blockhead; a dolt or fool. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clodpate
1. a stupid person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clodpate
Literary usage of Clodpate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"... the Tabou rer, late Clerk to Justice clodpate. THE Reader may perhaps wonder
why 1 should wave the employment of clerking to a Westminster Justice-, ..."
2. A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780) by Edmund Gosse (1889)
"To see my ducks and geese fed, and cram my own chickens. clodpate. Ay. ...
clodpate. Very well. Lucia. And then to have one approved green salve, ..."
3. A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780) by Edmund Gosse (1889)
"To see my ducks and geese fed, and cram my own chickens. clodpate. Ay. Lucia.
... clodpate. Very well. Lucia. And then to have one approved green salve, ..."
4. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From by John Campbell Campbell (1880)
"This story is referred to in the following doggerel:— " But one thing more must
not be past When George with clodpate* feasted last » (I must say ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1805)
"... under the mistaken belief that the accomplished miss clodpate is an heiress,
persuades her to run off with him, and marry him privately : and after the ..."
6. The Life of Judge Jeffreys by Henry Brodribb Irving (1898)
""Justice clodpate " was no other than the old Scroggs of Coleman's and Ireland's
trials ; and in the pamphlet the doings of the new Scroggs of Wakeman's ..."
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