sod Hear it!

sod¹ Definition

sod (säd)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

Obsolete seethe

sod² Definition

sod (säd)

noun

  1. a surface layer of earth containing grass plants with their matted roots; turf; sward
  2. 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

sod² Idioms

the old sod

one's native land: used esp. by the Irish

under the sod

dead and buried

sod³ Definition

sod (säd)

noun

  1. a sodomite
  2. an objectionable or contemptible person

Etymology: shortened < sodomite: see Sodomite, sense

transitive verb

to damn; curse: used only in the imperative sod all!

sod³ Idioms

sod off

go away!get lost!

sod Synonyms

sod

n.

clod, turf, sward, peat, pasture, meadow, lawn, grassland, mead, prairie, pasturage, green, grassplot; see also earth 2, grass 1.

sod Usage Examples

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

  • earth: The first sod of earth will be dug by Ward Member Cllr Neil Bell.
  • turf: After putting another sod of turf onto the range he sat back, waiting for it to heat, listening to the rain.
sod Quotes

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.

—Crane, (Harold) Hart

   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.

—William of Poitiers   11c.

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?

—Bronte«  , Charlotte