noun
- a stupid or dull-witted person; a blockhead
Usage: informal; archaic or dated
Examples
- He called his rival a clodpate for making such an obvious mistake.
- The clodpate didn't understand the simplest instructions.
- Only a clodpate would believe such an absurd story.
- She dismissed his argument as the ranting of a clodpate.
- The character in the play was portrayed as a bumbling clodpate.