sod
English
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /sɒd/
- (US) IPA(key): /sɑd/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /sɔd/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒd
- Homophone: sawed (cot–caught merger)
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English sod, sodde first attested in the mid-15th century, from Middle Dutch zoden (“turf”) or Middle Low German sôde, soede (“turf”), both related to Dutch zode (“turf”), German Sode (“turf”), Old Frisian sātha (“sod”), all being of uncertain ultimate origin.
Noun
editsod (plural sods)
- (uncountable) The stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
- 1746, William Collins, Ode written in the year 1746:
- She there shall dress a sweeter sod / Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
- (uncountable) 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.
- (countable) A piece of this.
- 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 338:
- In Walachia, green sods are laid on the window-sills and on the lintels of the doors to avert the uncanny crew [i.e. witches].
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Verb
editsod (third-person singular simple present sods, present participle sodding, simple past and past participle sodded)
- To cover with sod.
- He sodded the worn areas twice a year.
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Etymology 2
editClipping of sodomite or sodomize.
Noun
editsod (plural sods)
- (UK, Ireland, vulgar, dated) Sodomite; bugger.
- 1998, Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago (2018), page 207:
- The Empire, in particular, was always thick with sods: they strolled side-by-side with the gay girls of the promenade, or stood, in little knots, exchanging gossip, comparing fortunes, greeting one another with flapping hands and high, extravagant voices.
- (UK, Ireland, slang, mildly derogatory, formerly considered vulgar) A person; often qualified with an adjective.
- You mean old sod!
- poor sod
- unlucky sod
- You silly sod
- (UK, Ireland, mildly vulgar) Any trifling amount, a bugger, a damn, a jot.
- I don’t care a sod.
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editsod
Verb
editsod (third-person singular simple present sods, present participle sodding, simple past and past participle sodded)
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, slang, vulgar) Bugger; sodomize.
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, slang, vulgar) Damn, curse, confound.
- Sod him!, Sod it!, Sod that bastard!
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editEtymology 3
editFrom the Old English plural past tense, or a back-formation from the past participle sodden.
Verb
editsod
- (obsolete) simple past of seethe
- 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Genesis xxv:[29], folio xxxiiij, verso:
- Iacob ſod potage ⁊ Eſau came from the feld ⁊ was faine […]
Adjective
editsod (comparative more sod, superlative most sod)
- (obsolete) Boiled.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, 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.
- (Australia, of bread) Sodden; incompletely risen.
- sod damper
Noun
editsod (plural sods)
- (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
editNoun
editsod (plural sods)
- The rock dove.
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editBreton
editNoun
editsod m
Danish
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editNoun
editsod c (singular definite soden, not used in plural form)
Verb
editsod
- imperative of sode
Maltese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian sodo, from Latin solidus. Doublet of solidu.
Pronunciation
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editNorwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse soð. Doublet of sodd.
Noun
editsod n (definite singular sodet, indefinite plural sod, definite plural soda)
References
edit- “sod” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Slovene
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Slavic *sǫdъ.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsọ̑d m inan
Inflection
editMasculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | sód | ||
gen. sing. | sóda | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
sód | sóda | sódi |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
sóda | sódov | sódov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
sódu | sódoma | sódom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
sód | sóda | sóde |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
sódu | sódih | sódih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
sódom | sódoma | sódi |
Masculine inan., hard o-stem, plural in -ôv- | |||
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nom. sing. | sód | ||
gen. sing. | sóda | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
sód | sodôva | sodôvi |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
sóda | sodôv | sodôv |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
sódu | sodôvoma | sodôvom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
sód | sodôva | sodôve |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
sódu | sodôvih | sodôvih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
sódom | sodôvoma | sodôvi |
Further reading
edit- “sod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024
Uzbek
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic صَاد (ṣād).
Noun
editsod (plural sodlar)
- the Arabic letter ص
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editVolapük
editNoun
editsod (nominative plural sods)
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