cloddish

comparative more cloddish · superlative most cloddish

1. Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial.

   He was a cloddish man, like he'd just fallen off the turnip wagon and hadn't quite woken up yet from his long trip from the country.

2. Of or pertaining to lumpy soil.

   Night-seeding, the tractor's floodlights are blood-red & ovarian - nurturing the cloddish soil, & always the farmer working the wheel, hands gnarled & frostbitten & large.

   1980-1994, John Kinsella, ”Night Seeding & Notions of Property”, poem, last five lines