noun
- stupid or foolish people
Usage: archaic; informal
Examples
- The teacher grew frustrated with the clodpoles who couldn’t follow simple instructions.
- He called his lazy servants a bunch of clodpoles.
- The village clodpoles believed every rumor they heard.
- Don’t be such clodpoles – think before you act!
- The king dismissed his advisors as mere clodpoles.
- Those clodpoles managed to lose the map again.