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comparative more cloddish, superlative most cloddish
Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial. examples
Of or pertaining to lumpy soil. quotations examples
Night-seeding, the tractor's floodlights / are blood-red & ovarian - / nurturing the cloddish soil, & always / the farmer working the wheel, hands / gnarled & frostbitten & large.
1980-1994, John Kinsella, ”Night Seeding & Notions of Property”, poem, last five lines