Definitions
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- n. Alternative form of clodpole.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. See clodpoll.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A clodpoll; a blockhead.
- n. A head: used contemptuously.
Etymologies
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Examples
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She should speedily learn the difference between the assistance of a gentleman and that of a clotpoll!
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September 24th, 2008 at 8: 54 am clotpoll, i was intrigued with TD taking over Commerce.
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September 24th, 2008 at 8: 38 am clotpoll wrote: "By selling garbage at Tiffany prices, these firms will re-capitalize themselves - at our expense - and once again fire up the mechanisms that allow for the creation of debt, with the debt and its adverse consequences separated from the debtor."
rolig commented on the word clotpoll
"Clotpoll is a venerable word for a blockhead or dolt. Clot is allied etymologically to clod, and poll, of course, means the head. That’s why we have political polls, which count heads. And clotpolls trust them."
– John McIntyre, Baltimore Sun copy-editor extraordinaire, on his blog: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/
This is Samuel Johnson's spelling, but the word also appears as clodpoll and clodpole.
January 3, 2008