Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A lump or chunk, especially of earth or clay.
- n. Earth or soil.
- n. A dull, stupid person; a dolt.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any lump or mass; sometimes, a concreted mass; a clot.
- n. Specifically A lump of earth, or earth and turf; a lump of clay.
- n. In coal-mining, indurated clay: the equivalent of bind.
- n. A stretch of ground or turf; earth; soil.
- n. Anything earthy, base, and vile; poetically, the body of man in comparison with his soul: as, “this corporeal clod,”
- n. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt.
- n. A bait used in fishing for eels, consisting of a bunch of lobworms or earthworms strung on worsted yarn: also called a bob. See clod-fishing.
- To pelt with clods or stones.
- To form into clods.
- To cover with earth, as seeds; harrow.
- To confine in what is earthy and base, as the soul in the body.
- To throw with violence.
- A dialectal variant of clothe.
- n. A butchers' term for a cut of beef from the fore quarter opposite the cross-rib.
Wiktionary
- n. a lump of something, especially of earth or clay
- n. a stupid person; a dolt
- v. transitive To pelt with clods.
- v. transitive, Scotland To throw violently; to hurl.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.
- n. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
- n. That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
- n. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt.
- n. A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See
Illust. of Beef. - v. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot. See clot.
- v. To pelt with clods.
- v. Scot. To throw violently; to hurl.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an awkward stupid person
- n. a compact mass
Etymologies
- Middle English, variant of clot, lump; see clot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This CFR-Bilderberger owned clod is just another useful idiot for the New World Order.”
“Make him ask forgiveness of Guy; and then, "while little French birds were singing rondels, and as peasants bent over their hoes in clod-like attitudes, or leaned upon their spades to listen to the Angelus, the monk pronounced the words that made Blanche and Guy husband and wife, — or rather, wife and husband.”
“Why should such gentle hands and feet spend their strength in clod-breaking, when rough ones are at command?”
“It's true that I haven't heard the word to which Mr Denby is referring -- we'll call it "clod" -- spill from the mouth of an actual American person, as opposed to a movie character, whereas in Britain you need only reach for the last tube of Werther's Originals in the shop to be branded a clod by the seething shopper who's next in line.”
“Rick Schmidt’s method of cooking shoulder clod is in Peace, Love, & Barbecue.”
“First, before getting to the vermilion itself by methods of treatment, they dig out what is called the clod, an ore like iron, but rather of a reddish colour and covered with a red dust.”
“Once more the grub backs into its shell: once more it returns, bringing a second clod, which is prepared and used in the same manner.”
“How becoming is the appearance of what we familiarly term the "clod" in the "Princess"!”
“So at last the man, as they went grumbling on the highway, lost his temper, and hit her a 'clod' in the head, 'and I never spoke to him for an _hour_ afterwards; no, that I didn't; not for an hour.”
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
“A thing of beauty is wasted when it is put on a 'clod'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clod’.
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Eels
Words and phrases about eels.
apodal, conger, grig, never served raw, eelpout, eel, eelskin briefcase, eelskin, tribes in Persia ..., sniggling, sniggle, eel spear and 130 more...
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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Down on the Farm
All things farm and agriculture related.
barn, tractor, cow, hay, horse, pig, corn, plough, irrigation, subsidies, crops, plant and 260 more...
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unkind words
unkind words or those refering them.
twit, gibe, blockhead, bonehead, cretin, dullard, imbecile, simpleton, clod, dunce, simp, ignoramus and 39 more...
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Enter the Rustics
A fanfare for the Common Man. Words for rustics, yokels, and woolhats of all sorts.
woolhat, yokel, rustic, hucklebuck, hick, redneck, bogan, goober, hayseed, bumpkin, countryman, peasant and 70 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Browning words of cotton - often stic...
words that meander or have a partial dimension:
words that "catch on": peano curves: fractalitescotton, clue, filament, filaria, filum, filovirus, clod, cloud, peano curve, alveoli, nuance, noil and 122 more...
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teeter, headlong, reprobate, canard, ersatz, prevaricate, trenchant, minatory, fatuous, stultify, vitiate, fulminate and 135 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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Learned
ambergris, andiron, aphelion, austral, bellicose, boreal, bravura, chaff, chicanery, creditable, credulous, decamp and 223 more...
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Airborn
Words and phrases from Kenneth Oppel's book, Airborn.
running lights, starboard, bow, gondola, bullhorn, rudder man, gas cell, keel, catwalk, stern, cargo bay, machinist and 152 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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sputnik
canoodle, span, hasten, discombobulate, sputnik, clod, encrusted, spit-shine, zeitgeist, landslide, laid, cherish and 350 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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good words
words that are mostly fun to say or just lovely
undulate, voluptuous, whimsy, parse, dank, cerulean, peen, traipsing, listless, coup de grace, reconnoiter, mercurial and 499 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for clod.

fbharjo On Missouri eels revelation in frogapplause comment:
Hence Miss-Ouri?
Miss-Issippi must have 'Ms.ed the boat'? Jul 13, 2012
ruzuzu That's an awesome fact, frog! Jul 13, 2012
frogapplause I grew up hearing people being called clodhoppers. I had no idea that the word had anything to do with eels, especially since eels are uncommon in Missouri.
Interesting fact: All eels in Missouri are female.
link Jul 13, 2012
ruzuzu "A bait used in fishing for eels, consisting of a bunch of lobworms or earthworms strung on worsted yarn: also called a bob. See clod-fishing."
--Cent. Dict.
Jul 13, 2012