English

Alternative forms

• clodpoll

Noun

clodpole ‎(plural clodpoles)

1. (pejorative) a stupid person; blockhead
   • c. 1600:, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or What You Will

     ...this letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a clodpole.

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 4, chapter VI, The Landed

     ‘Show the dullest clodpole,’ says my invaluable German friend, ‘show the haughtiest feather-head, that a soul higher than himself is here; were his knees stiffened into brass, he must down and worship.’

See also

• tadpole