cloddish
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ɪʃ adjective
of, pertaining to, or resembling a clod or boor; doltish; stolid.
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clod (klɒd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a lump of earth or clay |
| 2. | earth, esp when heavy or in hard lumps |
| 3. | clodpole, clod poll, Also called: clodpate a dull or stupid person |
| 4. | a cut of beef taken from the shoulder |
| [Old English clod- (occurring in compound words) lump; related to | |
| 'cloddy | |
| —adj | |
| 'cloddish | |
| —adj | |
| 'cloddishly | |
| —adv | |
| 'cloddishness | |
| —n | |
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Cloddish
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
The czarist regime struck back with typically cloddish brutality.
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