sod
sod (säd)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
Obsolete seethe
sod (säd)
noun
- a surface layer of earth containing grass plants with their matted roots; turf; sward
- a piece of this layer
Etymology: ME, prob. < MDu or MLowG sode, akin to OFris sada, satha
transitive verb sod′·ded, sod′·ding
to cover with sod or sods
the old sod
one's native land: used esp. by the Irish
under the sod
dead and buried
sod (säd)
noun
- a sodomite
- an objectionable or contemptible person
Etymology: shortened < sodomite: see Sodomite, sense
transitive verb
to damn; curse: used only in the imperative sod all!
sod off
go away!get lost!
sod
n.
Converse of object
- cut: Gleeson's digger poised to cut the first sod.
- think: Then thought, well, sod it, let's go up to the gallery, " have a look round " .
- turn: On Monday July 24th, the mayor of Sofia turned the first sod of a new road in the country's capital.
- know: Please engage brain before posting comments on a subject you clearly know sod all about.
- do: The unions showed what they were really about, doing sod all work.
- mean: I mean the silly old sod is only asking three hundred a month, I'm glad we snapped him up on it.
Adjective modifier
- miserable: Good thing you're in the Tory party, you miserable sod.
- jammy: The things and places these jammy sods have done and seen.
- grumpy: Don't worry - i'm a grumpy old sod too.
- lazy: There's nothing wrong with being a lazy sod!
- cheeky: James actually, because he was a cheeky little sod!
- silly: I do not know why he went mental, silly sod.
Modifies a noun
- law: Sods law, they are also some of the prettiest.
- peat: This is the smallest of the sod peat bogs.
- everyone: Frugalista has effectively said public sector workers don't want big mortgages as it stops them moving jobs - well sod everyone else.
- bog: This is the smallest of the sod peat bogs.
Noun used with modifier
- relation: As Starship is the only candidate key of the relation SOD, it is also the primary key of relation SOD.
Possessives
- law: Talk about sod's law Consider the statistics - 1 in 4 of us will die of cancer.
Preposition: of
O Sleepless as the river under thee, Vaulting the sea, the prairies'dreaming sod, Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend And of the curveship lend a myth to God.
A strange manner of battle, where one side works by constant motion and ceaseless charges, while the other can but endure passivelyas it standsfixed tothesod.The Norman arrow and sword worked on: in the English ranks the only movement was the dropping of the dead: the living stood motionless.
We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper ageö Are they withered in the sod?
Browse dictionary entries near sod
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- sockeye salmon
- socket wrench
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- Sod's law
- soda
- soda ash
- soda biscuit
- soda cracker
- soda fountain
- soda jerk
- soda lime
- soda pop
- soda water
