clod – English noun declension

English noun forms of clod

Noun: clod
Singularclod
Pluralclods

Sample Sentences

  • clods of iron and brass [1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), originally published in 1581 by Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered
  • clods of blood
  • The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. [1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]
  • As for yon clod of clay, we will bury it later, lest it should pollute so goodly a pool. [1903, Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine:]
  • One of the clods took it back of the ear, and it used language. It gave me a thrill, for it was the first time I had ever heard speech, except my own. [1906, Mark Twain, Eve's Diary:]
  • "What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed. [2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest:]
  • the clod where once their sultan's horse hath trod [1723, Jonathan Swift, Pethox the Great:]
  • The vulgar, a scarce animated clod [1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act I, page 3:]
  • 'What was its number?'
  • 'I don't know, sir.'
  • 'You clod! Why didn't you call one of our men, whoever was nearest, and leave him to shadow the American while you followed the cab?' [1906, Robert Barr, The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont:]
  • So here's a valentine for you, you insensitive clod!! [1986 February 14, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes:]
  • Gerald Broflovski: You see Kyle, we humans work as a society, and in order for a society to thrive, we need gods and clods. [1998, Chickenpox (episode of South Park TV series)]
  • Peridot: Don't touch that! You clods don't know what you're doing! [2015, "Jail Break" (episode of Steven Universe TV series)]

Etymology

1. From Middle English clod, a late by-form of clot, from Old English clot, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“mass, ball, clump”). Compare clot and cloud; cognate to kloot (“clod”).
2. Alternatively, Middle English clod may derive from Old English *clod (found in Old English clodhamer (“a kind of thrush”) and Clodhangra (a placename)), from Proto-West Germanic *kloddō (“lump, clod”), from *gel- (“to ball up, become lumpy”), related to West Frisian klodde (“clod, lump”), Dutch klodde (“lump, blob”). See: Middle English Nouns 'clod', Old English Nouns 'clodhamer', Dutch Nouns 'klodde'.

Verbs referencing "clod"

English Nouns cloud, Dutch Nouns klodde.