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clod-pate
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 hea...
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clot-pate
† clot-pate Obs. = clod-pate.1640 Wizard (N.), Me..she cald clowne, clotpate, loggerhead. 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. xi. 245 Dunces, and clot-pates.
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clod-pole
ˈclod-poll, clod-pole [f. clod + poll head.] = clod-pate.1601 Shakes. Twel. N. iii. iv. 208 This Letter being so excellently ignorant..he will finde it comes from a Clodde-pole. c 1817 Hogg Tales & Sk. IV. 66 He thought the story..too ridiculous for any clodpole to have contrived. 1840 Thackeray Cat...
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clod
▪ I. clod, n. (klɒd) So 5–; also 5–7 clodde, 6 clodd. [Appears in 14th c. as a variant of clot; after which the two forms were long entirely synonymous, but they have subsequently been differentiated, the typical senses being now respectively as in a clod of earth, and a clot of blood. But OE. had a...
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mustard
▪ I. mustard, n. (ˈmʌstəd) Forms: 3 mustart, 3–5 mostard, 4–6 mustarde, 5–7 musterd, 6 musterde, mudsterd, 4– mustard. [a. OF. moustarde, mostarde (mod.F. moutarde) = Pr., Catal., Pg., It. mostarda, Rumanian mostar, f. Com. Rom. mosto must n.1, whence Catal. mostassa, mostalla, Sp. mostaza mustard (...
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