clod
/klɑd/
noun
- A lump or piece of earth, clay, or soil.
- The farmer broke up a clod of dirt with his hoe.
- After the rain, the garden was full of heavy clods of mud.
- She picked up a dry clod and crumbled it between her fingers.
- A stupid or clumsy person.
- That clod tripped over his own feet and dropped the cake.
- Don't be such a clod — you spilled juice all over the table.
- He felt like a clod when he couldn't answer the simple question.
verb
- To throw or hit with a clod of earth.
- The angry farmer clodded the fence post in frustration.
- The children clodded each other with dirt from the field.
- He playfully clodded his brother's back with a handful of soil.