variants
or clodpole
as in mutt
a stupid person
mistook the local farmers for a bunch of clodpolls who could be easily fleeced
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Noun
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Mushers gather at trailheads and parking lots for long weekends of racing, with world-champion sprinters (often huge, muscular pointers with legs a mile long) competing alongside teams of purebred Siberians and assorted mutts.—
Blair Braverman,
Outside Online,
18 Feb. 2025 -
The British Ministry of Defence's answer is using the mechanical mutts to make detecting and defusing bombs safer and more efficient.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Already, the area in front of the school was snarled with donkey carts loaded with people’s belongings, cooking gas cylinders, jugs of drinking water, mattresses and tarps.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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But the Russians aren’t merely experimenting with donkeys for the kinds of rough terrain that actually lends itself to pack animals.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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An underrated gem — not enough people have seen this top-tier season — Squirrels Trip has some fabulous vocals, very funny lyrics, a heavy dose of stupid, and an engaging story.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
21 Feb. 2025
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The stupid!—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
2 July 2021
Noun
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Best Deal: Quince Luxe Goose Down Pillow Luxe Goose Down Pillow $313 $120 Quince Pillow reviewer: Katherine McLaughlin, digital features editor Materials and firmness: The pillow is filled with white goose down and has a 100% cotton sateen shell.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
20 Feb. 2025
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This $189 coat is filled with 700-fill-power goose down to keep you warm without adding unnecessary bulk to your carry-on.—
Genevieve Cepeda,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Feb. 2025
Noun
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While there are dim bulbs in both parties, a special lighting area should be designed for Alabama Senator and former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville.—
Walter Shapiro,
The New Republic,
25 Sep. 2023
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Hamm's cop is on the case that involves moldy fast food, a deaf hitman and a bunch of dim bulbs not good at crimes.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
15 June 2023
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The fit was seen as a natural: UConn is expanding it regional campus presence in downtown Hartford, including the addition of student housing.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
5 Mar. 2025
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Will Smith, who starred in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which Jones executive produced, would have been a natural for the Jones tribute, but he was banned from all Academy Award events for 10 years in 2023 following his misbehavior on that year’s telecast.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Scott, likewise, packs his divisive prequels, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, with a bunch of disposable and largely unsympathetic numbskulls.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
16 Aug. 2024
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Fey didn’t write this uneven comedy, but it’s got some of the same sophisticated satire of big-city elites that 30 Rock exudes, and Martin has a ball playing a pompous numbskull who doesn’t know that ponytails have been over for more than a decade.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
29 Mar. 2024
Noun
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After the know-nothing county board opts to raze the baseball diamond to make way for a school, the teams meet for one final game at their beloved Soldier’s Field, with girlfriends, kids, and local hooligans as intermittent spectators.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
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Even as Republicans embrace him as an iconoclast, Democrats and other critics have lambasted Kennedy as a know-nothing without the scientific or bureaucratic experience to do the job effectively.—
Vox Staff,
Vox,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Clodpoll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clodpoll. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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