a. [f. as prec. + -Y1.]
† 1. Characterized by the presence of clots; clotted, coagulated, lumpy. Obs.
1547. Recorde, Judic. Ur., 69 b. A cloddy uryne is that which hath in it cloddes of blood.
1551. Turner, Herbal, I. I vj b. It draweth out cloddy or clotted bloude.
1658. A. Fox, Würtz’ Surg., III. iv. 228. If the matter be tuff … and is cloddy, it is a sign that the body decayeth in strength.
2. Characterized by, or abounding in, clods.
1545. Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke, Pref. (1548), 2. Cloddy hard ground.
1595. Shaks., John, III. i. 80. Turning The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold.
1656. Dugard, Gate Lat. Unl., § 333. If it bee cloddy, hee levelleth it with rowlers turned over it.
1846. J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric., II. 289. Light dry soils … they should be cloddy, and these clods should not fall to pieces easily by the harrows.
3. Of the nature of a clod, clod-like; earthy (in a depreciative sense).
1612–5. Bp. Hall, Contempl. N. T., IV. xiii. (1853), 309. These very bodies that are now cloddy like the earth, shall once be bright as the sun.
1642. Rogers, Naaman, 2. Cloddy, carnall, dead and sensuall creatures.
4. Clod-like in shape, short and thick, lumpish.
1712. E. Cooke, Voy. S. Sea, 342. A thick cloddy Fish, with a large Head.
1876. Whitby Gloss., Cloddy, thick, short, and full of flesh. Also unintellectual.
5. sb. = CLOD-HOPPER 1. dial.
1825. R. P. Ward, Tremaine, II. xxxiii. 290. Among the males there were none … but cloddies.
1877. E. Peacock, Gloss. N. W. Lincolnsh., Cloddy, an awkward ill-dressed man. ‘What a cloddy it is!’
