| 单词 | cloddy |
| 释义 | cloddy, a.|ˈklɒdɪ|
[f. as prec. + -y1.]
†1. Characterized by the presence of clots; clotted, coagulated, lumpy. Obs.
1547Recorde Judic. Ur. 69 b, A cloddy uryne is that which hath in it cloddes of blood. 1551Turner Herbal i. I vj b, It draweth out cloddy or clotted bloude. 1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. iii. iv. 228 If the matter be tuff..and is cloddy, it is a sign that the body decayeth in strength.
2. Characterized by, or abounding in, clods.
1545Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke Pref. (1548) 2 Cloddy hard ground. 1595Shakes. John iii. i. 80 Turning The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold. 1656W. Dugard Gate Lat. Unl. §333 If it bee cloddy, hee levelleth it with rowlers turned over it. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. II. 289 Light dry soils..they should be cloddy, and these clods should not fall to pieces easily by the harrows.
3. Of the nature of a clod, clod-like; earthy (in a depreciative sense).
1612–15Bp. Hall Contempl. N.T. iv. xiii. (1853) 309 These very bodies that are now cloddy like the earth, shall once be bright as the sun. 1642Rogers Naaman 2 Cloddy, carnall, dead and sensuall creatures.
4. Clod-like in shape, short and thick, lumpish.
1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 342 A thick cloddy Fish, with a large Head. 1876Whitby Gloss., Cloddy, thick, short, and full of flesh. Also unintellectual.
5. n. = clod-hopper 1. dial.
1825R. Ward Tremaine II. xxxiii. 290 Among the males there were none..but cloddies. 1877E. Peacock Gloss. N.W. Lincolnsh., Cloddy, an awkward ill-dressed man. ‘What a cloddy it is!’ |
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