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clod

Pronunciation: /klɒd/

The English word “clod” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A lump of something, especially earth or clay.
  2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
  3. A stupid person, a dolt, a clodpate, a clodhopper.
  4. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

verb

  1. To pelt with clods.
  2. To throw violently; to hurl.
  3. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.

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…

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