clod

Значение (English)

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. To pelt with clods.
2. 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

clod of earth

clodpate

nebbech

shnook

a lump

mammock

batch

beetle

🪲

bludgeon

boule

bowl

brick

bundle

burgeon

cake

🍰

chump

churl

clodhopper

clodpole

club

clumps

cob

concretion

cudgel

divot

doofus

gavel

glebe

gobbet

goof

grouping

hunk

klutz

loaf

loggerhead

Произносится как (IPA)

/klɒd/

Этимология (English)

Inherited from среднеанглийский: clod

Inherited from староанглийский: clot

Inherited from староанглийский: *clod

Cognate with староанглийский: clodhamer

Cognate with западнофризский: klodde

Cognate with нидерландский: 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”).