sod
see also: SOD, SoD
Pronunciation
SOD
Noun
SoD
Noun
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see also: SOD, SoD
Pronunciation
- IPA: /sɒd/
sod (uncountable)
- (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.
- She there shall dress a sweeter sod / Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
- 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
- French: gazon
sod (sods, present participle sodding; past and past participle sodded)
- To cover with sod.
- He sodded the worn areas twice a year.
- French: gazonner
sod (plural sods)
- (British, vulgar) Sodomite; bugger.
- (British, 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
- Russian: пидор
- Russian: чувак
sod (sods, present participle sodding; past and past participle sodded)
- (transitive, British, slang, vulgar) Bugger; sodomize.
- (transitive, British, slang, vulgar) Damn, curse, confound.
- Sod him!, Sod it!, Sod that bastard!
- (obsolete) simple past tense of seethe
sod
- (obsolete) Boiled.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:, 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
sod (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 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.
- 1954, Tom Ronan, Vision Splendid, quoted in Tom Burton, Words in Your Ear, Wakefield Press (1999), ISBN 1-86254-475-1, page 120:
sod (plural sods)
- The rock dove.
SOD
Noun
sod
- Abbreviation of superoxide dismutase.
- (business) Abbreviation of start#English|start of day#English|day.
SoD
Noun
sod (uncountable)
- (security) Initialism of separation of duties
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