clod
/klɑd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.32 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A lump of something, especially earth or clay.
noun
A stupid person, a dolt, a clodpate, a clodhopper.
Example Sentences
- "clods of iron and brass"
- "1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), originally published in 1581 by Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered clods of blood"
- "The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod."
- "As for yon clod of clay, we will bury it later, lest it should pollute so goodly a pool."
- "One of the clods took it back of the ear, and it used language. It gave me a thrill, for it was the first time I had ever heard speech, except my own."
- ""What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed."
Etymology
From Middle English clod, a late by-form of clot, from Old English clot, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“mass, ball, clump”). Compare clot and cloud; cognate to kloot (“clod”). Alternatively, Middle English clod may derive from Old English *clod (found in Old English clodhamer (“a kind of thrush”) and Clodhangra (a placename)), from Proto-West Germanic *kloddō (“lump, clod”), from *gel- (“to ball up, become lumpy”), related to West Frisian klodde (“clod, lump”), Dutch klodde (“lump, blob”).
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /klɑd/
- British English: /klɒd/
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Frequently Paired Words
chuck roll