sod

See also: SOD, SoD, sód, sød, and soð

English

Workers laying sod.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɒd

Etymology 1

From Middle English sod, sodde, from Middle Dutch sode (“turf”) or Middle Low German sôde, soede (“turf”). Compare also German Soden (“turf”), Old Frisian sātha (“sod”).

Noun

sod (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
    • Collins
      She there shall dress a sweeter sod / Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
  2. Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.
    The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.
Translations

Verb

sod (third-person singular simple present sods, present participle sodding, simple past and past participle sodded)

  1. To cover with sod.
    He sodded the worn areas twice a year.
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Etymology 2

From sodomize, by shortening

Noun

sod (plural sods)

  1. (Britain, vulgar) Sodomite; bugger.
  2. (Britain, slang, mildly pejorative, formerly considered vulgar) A person, usually male; often qualified with an adjective.
    You mean old sod!
    poor sod
    unlucky sod
Derived terms
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Interjection

sod

  1. (Britain, vulgar) expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.

Verb

sod (third-person singular simple present sods, present participle sodding, simple past and past participle sodded)

  1. (transitive, Britain, slang, vulgar) Bugger; sodomize.
  2. (transitive, Britain, slang, vulgar) Damn, curse, confound.
    Sod him!, Sod it!, Sod that bastard!
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Originally a back-formation from the past participle sodden.

Verb

sod

  1. (obsolete) simple past tense of seethe

Adjective

sod (comparative more sod, superlative most sod)

  1. (obsolete) Boiled.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , New York, 2001, p.223:
      Beer, if it be over-new, or over-stale, over-strong, or not sod, […] is most unwholesome, frets, and galls, etc.
  2. (Australia, of bread) Sodden; incompletely risen.
    sod damper

Noun

sod (plural sods)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) A damper (bread) which has failed to rise, remaining a flat lump.
    • 1954, Tom Ronan, Vision Splendid, quoted in Tom Burton, Words in Your Ear, Wakefield Press (1999), →ISBN, page 120:
      And Mart the cook the shovel took / And swung the damper to and fro. / 'Another sod, so help me God, / That's fourteen in a flamin' row.

Etymology 4

Noun

sod (plural sods)

  1. The rock dove.

Anagrams

Breton

Noun

sod m

  1. imbecile

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse sót (“soot”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soːd/, [soðˀ]
  • Rhymes: -oð

Noun

sod c (singular definite soden, not used in plural form)

  1. soot

Verb

sod

  1. imperative of sode

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sǫdъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsóːt/
  • Tonal orthography: sọ̑d

Noun

sód m inan (genitive sóda, nominative plural sódi or sodôvi)

  1. barrel

Declension

Volapük

Noun

sod (plural sods)

  1. sauce

Declension

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