Sod

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É’d

Full definition of sod

Noun

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.
• CollinsShe 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.

Related terms

• soddie

Verb

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

From sodomize, by shortening

Noun

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

Derived terms

• Sod’s law

Interjection

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

Verb

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

Derived terms

• sod off

Originally a Back-formation from {{3}} the past participle (sodden).

Verb

1. (obsolete)

   sod

   (simple past of seethe)

Adjective

1. (obsolete) Boiled.
• 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 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

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 1-86254-475-1, 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.

Noun

1. The rock dove.

Anagrams

• DOS, DoS, do's, dos, DSO, dso, ODS, ods, SDO