a. [f. CLOD + -ISH.] Somewhat clod-like; savoring of boorish stolidity or awkwardness.
1844. Disraeli, Coningsby, III. v. 112. His boots … seemed to him to have a cloddish air.
1852. Hawthorne, Blithedale Rom., viii. (1879), 80. Our thoughts … were fast becoming cloddish.
1882. Stevenson, in Cornh. Mag., 539. Lads, fresh from the heather, hang round the stone in cloddish embarrassment.
Hence Cloddishness.
1840. Blackw. Mag., XLVIII. 472/1. The insensibility supposed is inconsistent with the supposed sensibility, and would manifest a cloddishness of temperament that would prove the poetic spirit to be totally extinct.
