| 释义 |
cloddish, a.|ˈklɒdɪʃ|
[f. clod + -ish.]
Somewhat clod-like; savouring of boorish stolidity or awkwardness.
1844Disraeli Coningsby iii. v. 112 His boots..seemed to him to have a cloddish air. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. viii. (1879) 80 Our thoughts..were fast becoming cloddish. 1882Cornh. Mag. 539 Lads, fresh from the heather, hang round the stone in cloddish embarrassment.
Hence ˈcloddishness. |