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单词 cloddy
释义

cloddyadj.

Brit. /ˈklɒdi/, U.S. /ˈklɑdi/
Etymology: formed as clod n. + -y suffix1.
1. Characterized by the presence of clots; clotted, coagulated, lumpy. Obsolete.
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).
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