1. a stupid or foolish person; a blockhead
Usage: archaic; chiefly British

Examples

• He called his rival a clodpoll for making such an obvious mistake.
• The clodpoll didn't understand the simplest instructions.
• Only a clodpoll would believe such an absurd story.
• She dismissed his argument as the ranting of a clodpoll.
• The character in the play was portrayed as a bumbling clodpoll.