[f. CLOD + PATE head.]

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  1.  A thickhead or blockhead.

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1636.  T. Randall, in Ann. Dubrensia (1877), 17. What Clod-pates, Thenot, are our British swaines!

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a. 1679.  Earl of Orrery, Altemira, II. The Sober Clod-pate States-man.

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c. 1690.  B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Clodpate, a heavy, dull Fellow.

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  2.  A thick head. (Better two words.)

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1762.  Smollett, Sir L. Greaves, viii. (D.). There is more logic in that remark … than I expected from your clod-pate.

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