释义 |
ˈclod-poll, clod-pole [f. clod + poll head.] = clod-pate.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. iv. 208 This Letter being so excellently ignorant..he will finde it comes from a Clodde-pole. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. IV. 66 He thought the story..too ridiculous for any clodpole to have contrived. 1840Thackeray Catherine i, A poor clodpole, like Tom there. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 83 Our Academic clodpoles must be dense. |