CLOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clod mean? 

• CLOD (noun)
  The noun CLOD has 2 senses:

1. a compact mass

2. an awkward stupid person

  Familiarity information: CLOD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A compact mass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ball; chunk; clod; clump; glob; lump

Context example:

a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder

Hypernyms ("clod" is a kind of...):

agglomeration (a jumbled collection or mass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clod"):

clot; coagulum (a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid)

gob (a lump of slimy stuff)

clew (a ball of yarn or cord or thread)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An awkward stupid person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

clod; gawk; goon; lout; lubber; lummox; lump; oaf; stumblebum

Hypernyms ("clod" is a kind of...):

clumsy person (a person with poor motor coordination)

 Context examples 

Had I been a mere clod, neither would I have desired to write, nor would you have desired me for a husband.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So the man took off his hat, and put him down on a clod of earth, in a ploughed field by the side of the road.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

That sort of people.—Are they really animals and clods, and beings of another order?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was patent that this terrible man was no ignorant clod, such as one would inevitably suppose him to be from his exhibitions of brutality.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You base underbred clod!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“What dangerous walking it is,” said he, “in this ploughed field! If I were to fall from one of these great clods, I should undoubtedly break my neck.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Both the god and the clod schools erred, in Martin's estimation, and erred through too great singleness of sight and purpose.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And so I. To crawl is piggish; but to not crawl, to be as the clod and rock, is loathsome to contemplate.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The rest of the half-year is a jumble in my recollection of the daily strife and struggle of our lives; of the waning summer and the changing season; of the frosty mornings when we were rung out of bed, and the cold, cold smell of the dark nights when we were rung into bed again; of the evening schoolroom dimly lighted and indifferently warmed, and the morning schoolroom which was nothing but a great shivering-machine; of the alternation of boiled beef with roast beef, and boiled mutton with roast mutton; of clods of bread-and-butter, dog's-eared lesson-books, cracked slates, tear-blotted copy-books, canings, rulerings, hair-cuttings, rainy Sundays, suet-puddings, and a dirty atmosphere of ink, surrounding all.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One treated of man as a god, ignoring his earthly origin; the other treated of man as a clod, ignoring his heaven-sent dreams and divine possibilities.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)