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Words to describe people

This week’s words
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clodpate


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PRONUNCIATION:

(KLOD-payt)

MEANING:

noun: A stupid person.

ETYMOLOGY:

From clod (lump of earth) + pate (head). Earliest documented use: before 1635.

NOTES:

A clodpate has a head full of earth, still waiting for an idea to sprout. English has never suffered a shortage of ways to call someone thick-headed. Alongside clodpate, the language has clodpoll, clotpoll, clod-head, and clod-skull.

USAGE:

“What a small-minded, uninteresting clodpate he was.”
Christy Carlyle; Lady Meets Earl; Avon Books; 2022.

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