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Clod vs Cretin - What's the difference?

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Clod is a synonym of cretin.


As nouns the difference between clod and cretin

is that clod is a lump of something, especially of earth or clay while cretin is idiot, fool, bastard, fuckwit etc.

As a verb clod

is to pelt with clods.

As an adjective cretin is

stupid; idiotic; foolish etc.

clod

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
  • * Milton
    • clods of iron and brass
  • * E. Fairfax
    • clods of blood
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod', is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller ' clod .
  • * T. Burnet
    • this cold clod of clay which we carry about with us
  • * 2010 ,
    • "What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.
  • The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • the clod where once their sultan's horse has trod
  • A stupid person; a dolt.
    • (Dryden)
  • Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

    • Verb

    (clodd)
  • To pelt with clods.
    • (Jonson)
  • (Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
    • clodded gore
  • * G. Fletcher
    • Clodded in lumps of clay.
    (Webster 1913)

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    cretin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
  • (pejorative) An idiot.
  • * 1969 , Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes
    • When I challenged the symbolism, tried to make the professor consider the book as a piece of realism, he regarded me as if I were an absolute cretin . He got very supercilious and condescending

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * cretinism * cretinize * cretinoid * cretinous

    External links

    * (Cretinism)