clod

Meaning

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.
4. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

Verb

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

Synonyms

lump

lump of earth

clot

ball

chunk

oaf

idiot

blockhead

mass

snowball

clump

glob

fathead

fool

blob

block

simpleton

soil

stumblebum

dolt

lout

lubber

lummox

wad

bonehead

goon

cluster

gawk

earth

nitwit

mallet

maul

moron

noodle

numskull

pack

pelt

piece

poop

💩

projectile

rock

🪨

sap

schnook

shillalah

shillelagh

sod

stupe

stupid

tomfool

turf

Translations

zolla

motte

boule

Klumpen

terrón

bola

kluit

terròs

prop

klont

🅰️

klomp

torrão

Scholle

palla

grumo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/klɒd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: clod

Inherited from Old English: clot

Inherited from Old English: *clod

Cognate with Old English: clodhamer

Cognate with Western Frisian: klodde

Cognate with Dutch: klodde

In summary

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”).