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Definition of Clodpolls
1. clodpoll [n] - See also: clodpoll
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clodpolls
Literary usage of Clodpolls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842)
"Often in my walks to and from her cottage ; repeating the verses aloud and
passionately, I excited the stare and broad grin of senseless clodpolls, ..."
2. Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Sutherland Mrs Orr (1908)
"The people here are good, stupid and dirty, without a touch of the sense of
picturesqueness in their clodpolls. ..." The little record continues through ..."
3. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1844)
"... let every servant be taught to say the above as regularly as a catholic would
repeat his breviary ; and not, as many thickheaded clodpolls do, ..."
4. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1859)
"... let every servant be taught to say the above as regularly as a catholic would
repeat his breviary; and not, as many thickheaded clodpolls do, by saying, ..."
5. A School History of English Literature by Elizabeth. Lee (1898)
"... are comically interwoven with the pranks of Puck and his tricksy sprites, and
the well-meant but ludicrous dramatic efforts of country clodpolls. ..."
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