sod

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• Rhymes: -ɒd

From Middle English sod, sodde [attested since mid-15^th c.], from Middle Dutch sode (“turf”) or Middle Low German sôde, soede (“turf”), both related to German Soden (“turf”), Old Frisian sātha (“sod”), all being of uncertain ultimate origin.

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.

• soddie
• sodless

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.

From sodomize, by shortening

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

   You silly sod

• Sod’s law

sod

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

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!

• sod off

Originally a back-formation from the past participle sodden.

sod

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of seethe

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

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.

sod (plural sods)

1. The rock dove.

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

sod m

1. imbecile

From Old Norse sót (“soot”).

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

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

1. soot

sod

1. imperative of sode

From Proto-Slavic *sǫdъ.

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

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

1. barrel

sod (plural sods)

1. sauce