clod
Plural: clods
Noun
- A lump of earth or a foolish, stupid person.
- a compact mass
- an awkward stupid person
- A lump of something, especially earth or clay.
- The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
- A stupid person; a dolt.
- Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
Verb
- To pelt with clods.
- To throw violently; to hurl.
- To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
Examples
- He felt like a CLOD for missing such an obvious bingo opportunity in Words With Friends.
Origin / 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 ball up, become lumpy”), related to West Frisian klodde (“clod, lump”), Dutch klodde (“lump, blob”).
Scrabble Score: 7
clod: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordclod: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
clod: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
clod: valid Words With Friends Word