单词 | cloddy |
释义 | cloddyadj.ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [adjective] > full of lumps globose?a1425 clotty?1523 cloddy1547 cloddered1558 lumpy1707 lumpish1735 1547 R. Record Judic. Uryne 69 b A cloddy uryne is that which hath in it cloddes of blood. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. I vjv It draweth out cloddy or clotted bloude. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. iv. 228 If the matter be tuff..and is cloddy, it is a sign that the body decayeth in strength. 2. Characterized by, or abounding in, clods. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > lumpy clotty?1523 cloddy1545 clottery1567 surly1609 crust-clung1610 glebous1671 soil-bound1688 1545 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Luke in Paraphr. New Test. Pref. (1548) 2 Cloddy hard ground. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 6 Turning..The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold. 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xxxiii. §333 If it bee cloddy hee levelleth it with rowlers turned over it. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 289 Light dry soils..should be cloddy, and these clods should not fall to pieces easily by the harrows. 3. Of the nature of a clod, clod-like; earthy (in a depreciative sense). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > material or not spiritual > merely material worldlyOE earthlyOE fleshlyc1175 materialc1390 carnal1483 charnel1483 earthen1538 world-like1577 earthy1594 materious1611 cloddy1634 wormy1640 unangelicala1711 descendental1847 unangelic1890 1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 182 These very bodies that are now cloddie, like the earth; shall once be bright as the sun. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 2 Cloddy, carnall, dead and sensuall creatures. 4. Clod-like in shape, short and thick, lumpish. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being short and thick or broad > [adjective] stoba1500 stubbeda1529 stubbleda1529 strunt1577 stumpy1600 chubby1611 stumpish1618 chubbed1674 squat1684 chubbish1685 chub1688 squabbed1694 cloddy1712 clavellated1713 pluggy1720 squab1723 puddy1747 tubbish1786 stunt1788 bunting1808–25 dumpy1808 clumpy1820 dubby1825 stubby1831 chunky1833 snubbed1835 tubby1835 pudgy1862 squatty1881 squidgy1891 the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad short shoulderedc1405 bunting1584 squaddy1593 chubby1611 truncheon1611 squat1630 squabbish1666 truss1674 squab1675 squad1675 stocky1676 punch1679 trunch1683 squat1688 stub1711 fodgel1724 thick-set1724 puddy1747 chunky1749 dumpy1750 squabby1754 knurly1758 clunch1776 trunchy1778 fubsy1780 punchy1780 humpty-dumpty1785 trunched1787 pudgy1788 fubby1790 runty1807 squattish1809 roly-poly1818 stumpy1822 hoddy-doddy1824 spuddya1825 hodmandod1825 stubby1831 podgy1832 fubsical1834 dumpty1847 fatling1847 stuggy1847 nuggety1856 cloddy1876 blocky1879 chumpy188. cobby1883 squidgy1891 stockish1913 pyknic1925 humpisha1935 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 342 A thick cloddy Fish, with a large Head. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Cloddy, thick, short, and full of flesh. Also unintellectual. 5. n. = clodhopper n. 1. dialect. ΚΠ 1825 R. P. Ward Tremaine II. xxxiii. 290 Among the males there were none..but cloddies. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Cloddy, an awkward ill-dressed man. ‘What a cloddy it is!’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1545 |
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