cloddish
Collocations
3ADJ.
nurturing
CLODDISH + NOUN
he'd, man, soil
ADV.
always
Definitions
adj
Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial.
He was a cloddish man, like he'd just fallen off the turnip wagon and hadn't quite woken up yet from his long trip from the country.
Of or pertaining to lumpy soil.
Night-seeding, the tractor's floodlights are blood-red & ovarian - nurturing the cloddish soil, & always the farmer working the wheel, hands gnarled & frostbitten & large.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — heavy and dull and stupid
- doltish
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
2He was a cloddish man, like he'd just fallen off the turnip wagon and hadn't quite woken up yet from his long trip from the country.
WiktionaryNight-seeding, the tractor's floodlights are blood-red & ovarian - nurturing the cloddish soil, & always the farmer working the wheel, hands gnarled & frostbitten & large.
Wiktionary