Clodpoll

Clod´poll`


n.1.A stupid fellow; a dolt.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
(108-12) Innocent Innogen's rebuffing of the clodpoll Cloten contrasts the mad with the foolish, while resonating with the play's diamond motif.
It was a world which immortalised expressions like 'fossilised fish-hooks', 'goodo' and 'you clodpoll!' and which created rollicking adventures such as the Poisonous Spider Incident and the Great Search Party Escapade.