Etymologies
- clod + pole (“head”) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This letter, being so excellently ignorant ... it comes from a clodpole.”
“Now will not I deliver his letter: for the behavior of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good capacity and breeding; his employment between his lord and my niece confirms no less: therefore this letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a clodpole.”
“You filthy clodpole!' he said, rising from his place and thrusting a prognathous jaw and blazing eyes half-way across the table.”
“The learned professions, or black arts, lost at least ninety-five per cent in importance; and so rapid as been the increase of the evil, that, at this time of day, it is a hard matter to impose on any clodpole in Europe!”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
“The doors are then thrown open, and the lucky clodpole receives the tit-bit as his recompence.”
“Now will not I deliver his letter: for the behaviour of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good capacity and breeding; his employment between his lord and my niece confirms no less: therefore this letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a clodpole.”
“Show the dullest clodpole, show the haughtiest featherhead, that a soul higher than himself is actually here; were his knees stiffened into brass, he must down and worship.”
“Thou fightest like a clodpole," said the old man.”
“A lourdeau, my dear brother, is as we might say a bumpkin, a clown, a clodpole: a fellow without grace, lightness, quickness; any gift of pleasing, any natural brilliancy: such a one as you shall see, when you desire, by looking in the mirror.”
Account of All That Passed on the Night on February 27th, 1757
“The boy's better spirit was touched, and it kindled his imagination to realize the abject figure of poor clodpole Tom, and surround it with a halo of mournful light.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clodpole’.
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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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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Name-Calling for Fun and Profit
I figured out the thing all these terms have in common, besides that they can be used as insults. They all crack me up.
drip, yahoo, dweeb, nimrod, wanker, nincompoop, weasel, skank, fussbudget, dink, twit, guttersnipe and 125 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 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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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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classy invective
words that criticize or insult in a precise and elegant manner
puerile, jejune, insipid, meretricious, blackguard, feckless, froward, mountebank, venal, asinine, inane, minx and 19 more...
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the 'voice' of reason
A wise man once said: Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
recreant, ninny, nincompoop, sapskull, lunatic, buffoon, domnoddy, half-wit, imbecile, spineless, craven, maggot and 26 more...
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Words I learned from Temeraire
Because I wish I would've made this sort of list for some other books I've read, and I still have the opportunity with Temeraire. And also, it's nice to learn new words (and to remember ones that'...
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Best Words Evar
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yarb On the very next morning, a sort of clodpole, with a portmanteau across his shoulders, knocked at the door of Florence's father.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 5 ch. 1 Sep 19, 2008
rolig see also clotpoll. Jun 17, 2008
mollusque "I've turned invisible, as any clodpole with half an ounce of sense can plainly see," snorted Doli.
--Lloyd Alexander, 1968, The High King Apr 29, 2008
reesetee Almost as good as squarehead. :-) Apr 29, 2008