ˈclod-pate
[f. clod + pate head.]
1. A thickhead or blockhead.
| 1636 T. Randall in Ann. Dubrensia (1877) 17 What Clod⁓pates, Thenot, are our British swaines! a 1679 Earl of Orrery Altemira 11, The sober Clod-pate States-man. c 1690 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Clodpate, a heavy, dull Fellow. |
2. A thick head. (Better two words.)
| 1762 Smollett Sir L. Greaves viii. (D.) There is more logic in that remark..than I expected from your clod-pate. |