cloddish

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English clod Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English cloddish From clod + -ish.

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.”