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clodpole

noun

Etymology

From clod + pole (“head”).

  1. derived from *peh₂ǵ-✻
  2. derived from *pākslos✻
  3. derived from *paxlos✻
  4. derived from pālus
  5. inherited from *pāl✻
  6. inherited from pāl
  7. inherited from pole
  8. compounded as clodpole — “clod + pole”

Definitions

  1. A stupid person

    A stupid person; blockhead.

    • […]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,’ says my invaluable German friend, ‘show the haughtiest feather-head, that a soul higher than himself is here; were his knees stiffened into brass, he must down and worship.’

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA