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▪ I. sod, n.1|sɒd|
Also 5–6 sodde, 7–8 (9 dial.) sodd.
[app. ad. MDu. sode, soode (Du. zode) or MLG. sode (sade; LG. sode, sudde), = OFris. sâtha, sâda (WFris. sead, saed, sâdde), of doubtful origin.
Connexion with seethe v. has been conjectured, on the supposition that the word may orig. have denoted turf used as fuel, but there is no clear evidence of this.]
1. a. A piece or slice of earth together with the grass growing on it, usually square or oblong in shape and of moderate thickness, cut out or pared off from the surface of grass land; a turf. Also const. of (grass, turf, etc.).
c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 6 Yf þy dysshe metes dere ben to salt, Kerve a grene sod..þou schalt, And kover þy pot with þo gresse done. 1483Cath. Angl. 348/1 A Sodde, vbi A turfe. 1497–8Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 100 Pro cariag. xxiiij plaustr. de lez Soddez..usque Westorchard. 1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. 57 b, His owne clergye wold scarsely suffer hym to be buryed..vnder tyrfes or soddes of the grasse. 1577Holinshed Chron., Hist. Eng. iv. x. I. 61 She..mounted vp into an high place raysed vp of turfe and soddes. c1618Moryson Itin. iv. 335 Old writers witness that..for a monument they only raysed a turffe or greene Sodd of the earth. 1697Dryden æneid viii. 237 On sods of turf he set the soldiers round. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray (E.D.S.) s.v., A turf is thin and round, or oval..; a sod, thick and square, or oblong mostly. 1817Wolfe Burial Sir J. Moore ii, We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning. 1865Swinburne Poems & Ball., Dolores 350 Her temple of branches and sods. 1884Times (weekly ed.) 12 Sept. 2/4 Yesterday the first sod was turned of the new school-room.
b. collect. as a material.
1826Hood Irish Schoolm. xii, His tears shall make his turfy seat More sodden, tho' already made of sod. 1827Scott Highl. Widow i, The walls of sod, or divot, as the Scotch call it, were not four feet high.
c. Sc. A piece of turf used for fuel; a peat.
1825Jamieson Suppl., Sod, a species of earthen fuel, used for the back of a fire on the hearth. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb (1873) 66 [They] had availed themselves of ‘a het sod’ to light their pipes. 1897D. Butler Church & Par. Abernethy v. 78 A lighted sod from the priest's house.
d. dial. and Mining. (See quots.)
1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Sods, square pieces of clay for draining, cut from ploughed land instead of turf. 1881Leic. Gloss., Sod, a clod: not necessarily turf. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-m. 229 Sods, clay beneath coal seams.
2. Sc. and north. In pl., two pieces of turf used as a substitute for a saddle or pack-saddle. Hence, a rough kind of saddle made of cloth, canvas, etc., and stuffed with straw. Freq. a pair of sods.
a1586R. Maitland in Pinkerton Anc. Sc. Poems (1786) 322 For thai, that had gude hors and geir, Hes skantlie now ane crukit meir: And for thair sadils thai have soddis. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 27 He had a lady Del To-Bose, Who never budged from his side; Upon a pair of sodds astride. 1707Lady G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (1911) 20 For a pair sods to Doctor St Clairs lady, {pstlg}1. 16. 0. 1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Sods, a canvas pack-saddle stuffed with straw. 1822T. Bewick Mem. 24, I buckled him [a dog] up in a pair of old ‘sods’ which covered him beyond both head and tail. 1886W. Brockie Leg. & Superst. 39 (Heslop), To get her safely mounted behind him on a well girt pillion or sodds.
3. a. The surface of the ground, esp. when turfy or grass-covered; the sward. Freq. poet. or rhet. Also N. Amer., more generally, soil which is grass-covered; sward which has never been cultivated; the surface of a lawn.
(a)1729T. Cooke Tales, etc. 89 Here be my Dwelling on this native Sod. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 255 If I had but one fair trust with him upon the sod, I'd give him lave to brag all the rest of his life! 1797Godwin Enquirer i. xiv. 121 He bounds over the sod. 1820Shelley Question 13 Tender bluebells, at whose birth The sod scarce heaved. 1833Tennyson Pal. Art 261 Mouldering with the dull earth's mouldering sod. 1878Masque of Poets 12 A homely product of the common sod.
(b)1745Season. Advice Protestants 17 The strong Sod on the Earth, made so by various Composts. 1810E. D. Clarke Trav. Russia (1839) 42/1 A..desolate plain, covered only by a thin sod, on which herds of cattle were grazing. 1838Ld. Clements Poverty Irel. 25 It consists, simply, in taking one or two crops of potatoes from the ley, or grass sod.
(c)1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 47/1 (Advt.), 1st class sandy land with substantial buildings. This irrigated land would produce excellent sod. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 12 June 5/2 Some Postal Service employes also think that ‘a lot of people don't want us to cross their lawns, tear up yards, and stomp holes in the sod.’ 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 5 July 9-C/1 (Advt.), 761 Acres cropland; 600 Acres former cropland, grassed; 800 Acres sod to break.
b. Phr. under the sod: dead and buried; to put under the sod: to kill. colloq. and dial.
1847Trollope Macdermots III. vii. 286 I've heard the boys say that he would be undher the sod that day six months. Ibid. 288 A lot of boys swore together..to put him undher the sod. 1894H. Pease Mark o' Deil i. 19 ‘Fear-nowt Charlie,’ who wes put under the sod, poor chap, a year come Michaelmas. 1972K. Bonfiglioli Don't point that Thing xviii. 159 Happiness is..being alive and wonderful-for-his-age when old so-and-so is under the sod.
c. (a) The Turf. Obs. (b) The surface of a cockpit (sense 1); the institution, practice, or action of cock-fighting, the cock-fighting world.
1755Mem. Capt. P. Drake II. xvi. 265 She had run on the Sodd several Years, had won some Plates of small Value [etc.]. 1812Sporting Mag. XL. 161 He flourished at the gaming-house, and blazed on the sod. 1814W. Sketchley Cocker p. iii, The author having been attached to the sod at a very early period of life..he flatters himself that..his attempt at writing ‘The Cocker’ will be found to contain..instruction. 1840D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports ix. i. 1208 His chief opponent was Potter, who was feeder for that veteran sportsman, the Earl of Derby, whose attachment for the sod continued unwearied. 1912W. Gilbey Sport in Olden Time 41 So closely was the grass-covered pit associated with the sport, that ‘the sod’ bore to cocking the same significance as ‘the turf’ bears to racing. 1977Verbatim Feb. 1/1 Although the cockpit is as remote from the lives of most of us as a brontosaurus wallow, our language has been richly endowed by The Sod, and few of us get through a single day without recourse to at least one phrase from the lexicon of cocking.
4. dial.
a. The spot of ground on which one stands.
1691Ray N.C. Words (ed. 2) 67, I will dye upon the Sod; i.e. in the place where I am. 1828Carr Craven Gloss. s.v., I wish I may nivver stir of 't sod.
b. the (old) sod, one's native district or country; spec., Ireland.
1812P. Egan Boxiana I. 315 O'Donnel..was a native of Ireland, who left the sod at a very early period of his life. 1863Mrs. Toogood Spec. Yorks. Dial. (MS.), He does not like to leave the old sod after having lived there so long. 1891E. Roper By Track & Trail ii. 25 And did ye see ould Ireland lately?.. And how's the poor ould sod? 1892W. G. Lyttle Life in Ballycuddy 12 (E.D.D.), A'll niver lee the auld sod again. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 19 To say too us to be every tim, nick and larry of us, sons of the sod. Ibid. 194 Dry yanks will visit old sod. a1953E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) ii. ii. 80 Then before his father can react to this insult to the Old Sod, he adds dryly, [etc.]. 1955J. P. Donleavy Ginger Man v. 35 I'll give you the jug to remember me when I'm gone from the ould sod, sacked in with some lovely French doll.
5. attrib. and Comb.
a. Attrib., in the sense ‘made, formed, built, or consisting of sods’, as sod bank, sod cabin, sod-cloth, sod crop, sod-drain, sod ground, sod-house, sod-hut, sod-kiln, sod land, etc.; also in other uses, as sod-draining, sod-plough, sod spade; sod widow (see quot. 1946); sod-worm (see quot.).
1799[A. Young] Agric. Lincoln. 383 *Sod banks cost, thirty-five years ago, 1s. 2d. a rood of seven yards.
1932W. Faulkner Light in August xi. 232 He found the *sod cabin.
1905*Sod-cloth [see mudwalling vbl. n.]. 1956R. C. Evans On Climbing viii. 128 Round the bottom of the tent, on the outside, a foot-wide strip of cloth should run, the ‘sod-cloth’, on which stones and snow can be put to anchor the tent.
1848Rep. U.S. Comm. Patents 1847 539 This gave a *sod crop without tending of thirty to forty bushels per acre. 1950Jrnl. Illinois State Hist. Soc. Spring 37 They learned to plant a ‘sod crop’ by cutting upturned furrows with an ax, then dropping in a few kernels of corn.
1844H. Stephens Book Farm I. 603 If the turf is tough, so much the better for the durability of the *sod-drain.
Ibid., An imperfect form of wedge-draining is practised in some parts of England on strong clay soils, under the name of *sod-draining.
1839W. Sewall Diary 23 Aug. (1930) 207/1 Broke up the *sod ground in the prairie up the hollow for a yard in which to make brick. 1932Randolph Enterprise (Elkins, W.Va.) 4 Feb. 4/2 Sod ground is about all ploughed and some stubble ground also.
1832Bubwith Inclosure Act 38 A certain cottage or *sod-house.
1937J. Ise (title) Sod-house days. Letters from a Kansas homesteader, 1877–78. 1948B. Sundkler Bantu Prophets vi. 183 On the door of the sod house used as a church there is painted a green and white cross. 1977Westworld (Vancouver, B.C.) May–June 6/2 There certainly was nothing like a sod house for being cool in summer and warm in winter.
1869Harper's Monthly June 25/1 A warmer abode than the *sod hut..he will never have. 1896Howells Impress. & Exp. 146 The dugouts or sod-huts of the settlers on the great plains. 1930L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. ii. 13 Ford built a six-roomed wooden cottage to replace the original sod hut. 1972Science 19 May 747/2 While others were planning fancy facilities, Herzberg's helpers built a sod-hut similar to those used as homes by the early settlers of Saskatchewan.
1806Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 265 From these..*sod-kilns, perhaps, were copied the shallowness and width of the present stone-kilns.
1856Rep. U.S. Comm. Patents 1855: Agric. 262 They were mostly sown upon *sod-land. 1946Sun (Baltimore) 11 Nov. 2/1 Anderson cautioned growers of wheat and flax not to break up sod or grass lands which are not adapted to continued cultivation and which would create erosion hazards in the future.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2238/1 *Sod-plow, a plow long in the share and mold-board, adapted to cut and overturn sod.
1843–52R. Burn Techn. Dict. i, Revêtement en gazons,..*sod revetment. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. III. 120 Sod revetments form a neat-looking slope.
1793Wordsw. Descr. Sketches 21 For him *sod-seats the cottage-door adorn. a1835Hogg Tales, Wool-gatherer (1866) 72 Jane had sat down on the sod-seat.
1619S. Atkinson Gold Mynes Scotl. (Bann. Cl.) 1 To use the arte of delving with the *sodd spade.
1649W. G. Surv. Newcastle upon Tine 2 Picts, who brake downe the *Sodd Wall. 1776Lesly in Young Tour Irel. (1780) I. *209 The sod walls, about 10 or 12 inches thick.
1927Amer. Speech II. 278 *Sod (widow), husband dead. 1946G. Stimpson Bk. about Thousand Things 349 A grass widow's husband was alive while a sod widow's husband was under the sod. 1973Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer 12 Mar. 34/2 Last but not least is our large number of widows (sod). There are 70.
1834–47J. S. Macaulay Field Fortif. (1851) 225 The earth above the pebbles is to be retained by a revetment of *sod-work.
1891Cent. Dict., *Sod-worm, the larva of certain pyralid moths, as Crambus exsiccatus, which destroys the roots of grass and corn.
b. Objective, with agent-nouns and vbl. ns., as sod-builder, sod-cutter, sod-soaker; sod-burning, sod-cutting, etc.
1796W. H. Marshall W. England II. 32 Sodburning the more loamy soils..would be a ready means of meliorating the herbage. 1843–52R. Burn Techn. Dict. i, Trousse-pas, sod-cutter's spade. Ibid. ii. s.v., Sod-builder. Ibid. ii. s.v., Sod-cutter, écobue. 1890Science-Gossip XXVI. 99 If the grass and other sod-forming plants assert themselves. 1892Daily News 7 Jan. 3/3 The sod-cutting ceremony of tomorrow. 1903Sod-soaker [see gully-washer s.v. gully n.1 4]. 1953Manch. Guardian Weekly 18 June 3/1 ‘Oh Lord, send us a sod-soaker and not a gully-drencher.’ The prayer of the prairie farmer is specific.
(b) Special comb. sod planting Agric., the sowing of seed in unploughed ground, herbicides being used to kill or control any existing vegetation; so sod-plant v. trans., sod-planted ppl. a.
1965Proc. Southern Weed Control Conf. XVIII. 146 A second screening test was conducted in 1963 in connection with a new sod planting research program. The aim..was to develop a high producing summer grain or silage crop grown in a chemically controlled perennial sod which would return to productive pasture in the fall, winter and spring, maintaining a protective mulch cover at all times. 1967Agronomy Jrnl. LIX. 549/1 Removal of the rye immediately before sod-planting corn in the stubble lowered yields as compared to mulched crops. Ibid. 548/1 Inclusion of the winter legumes..did not increase sod-planted corn yields. Ibid. 550/1 The moisture conserving aspect of sod planting is most pronounced for droughts of short duration. 1978McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 78/2 Various reduced tillage systems are referred to as direct drilling, minimum tillage, no-tillage, sod planting,..depending upon the operations used, the crops grown, and the locale.
c. With pa. pples., as sod-built, sod-roofed.
1805–6Wordsworth Prelude (1959) viii. 613 The Woodman languish'd Within his sod-built cabin. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iii. i, The rye-grass shakes not on the sod-built fold. 1891E. Roper By Track & Trail iii. 37 Groups of ruined shanties, sod-roofed, bark-roofed, covered anyhow.
▪ II. sod, pa. pple., ppl. a., and n.2|sɒd|
Forms: 3–4 i-sode, 4–5 sode, 5–7 sodde, 6– sod.
[Pa. pple. of seethe v. Cf. sodden pa. pple., etc.]
†1.
a. Of food, liquor, etc.: Boiled; prepared by boiling. Obs.
pred.1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 9164 Þe bones hii bere Wel iselt & isode to þe abbeye of redinge. 13..Seuyn Sag. 1574 (W.), Barli-water, that was i-sode. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 246 Flesh y-rostid, wych is more hottyr than..sode in watyr. 1588Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 309 Eating of those bodies which they had slaine, some sodde and some roasted. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. i. (1651) 70 Beer, if it be..over strong, or not sod,..frets and gauls.
attrib.c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋827 So thise shrewes ne holden hem nat apayed of roosted flessh and sode flessh. 1390Gower Conf. II. 270 Sche let do sowe The lond with sode whete aboute. c1430Two Cookery-bks. 42 Nym sode Porke & chese. 1528Paynell Salerne's Regim. Q iij, Sodde peres releue the stomake greued. 1598Lodge Looking Gl. for Lond. & Eng. B iv, Whay, curds, creame, sod milke, raw-milke. 1611Coryat Crudities 373 Rost and sodde meates. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 898 Wool wet in sod or sweet wine.
†b. twice sod, stale, unpalatable. Obs.
1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. iv. x, Is meat twice sod to you, sir? 1608Chapman Byron's Consp. iv. i. 114 You make all state before Vtterly obsolete; all to come, twice sod. 1610[see colewort 4]. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. ii. 130 The example doth so suite the Text, that I could not pretermit it here, though it be mentioned before: neither is it ‘coleworts twice sod’.
†c. Of persons: Sodden, soaked, or steeped in liquor. Obs.
1613Beaum. & Fl. Captain iv. ii, All the rest..are in Limbo patrum, Where they lye sod in sack.
2. a. Of bread: Sodden. Also as n.: a damper (damper 6) that has not risen. Austral.
1836Penny Cycl. V. 373/1 So that no part of the dough may form a sod or ill-raised bread. 1900–10in G. A. Wilkes Dict. Austral. Colloquialisms (1978) 309/1. 1931 I. L. Idriess Lasseter's Last Ride v. 36 He made dampers so light that they were in danger of blowing away [and]..had not baked one ‘sod’ during the entire trip. 1957R. S. Porteous Brigalow 206 His dampers were leaden sods. 1975X. Herbert Poor Fellow my Country xvi. 838, I want to cook our own damper, too{ddd}don't want one of their sods.
b. sod oil (see quots.).
1883R. Haldane Workshop Rec. Ser. ii. 367/2 The oil pressed out of the fermented skins is known as ‘sod oil’. 1885A. Watt Leather Manuf. xxvii. 341 ‘Sod oil,’ a greasy matter obtained in the treatment of sheep-skins.
†3. As n. Boiled meat. Obs.
1548Elyot, Acapna thysia,..spoken of a simple feast, wherein is neither bake, roste nor sodde. 1558Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. 33 b, You maye gyue hym roste and sodde with pottage of Amylum. 1600Rowland Lett. Humours Blood iii. 9 Not that hee'le cloy him there with rost or sod. a1618Sylvester Maiden's Blush 218 While hee is set-up with his Sod and Roast.
▪ III. sod, n.3|sɒd|
[Short for sodomite.]
1. One who practises or commits sodomy. coarse slang.
c1855Yokel's Preceptor 6 It is not long since, in the neighbourhood of Charing Cross, they posted bills in the windows of several respectable public houses, cautioning the public to ‘Beware of Sods!’ 1859G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 83 Sod, a worn-out debauchee, whom excess of indulgence has rendered unnatural.
1934V. Woolf Let. 24 Jan. (1979) V. 273, I am writing about sodomy at the moment and wish I could discuss the matter with you; how far can one say openly what is the relation of a woman and a sod? 1949Wyndham Lewis Let. ?8 Mar. (1963) 484 When you come to write your book, its scene our day to day life, I should put in the sods. Sartre has shown what a superb figure of comedy a homo can be. 1968S. Jameson White Crow xxxiv. 291 Homosexuals are always getting themselves assaulted. You read that some respectable middle-aged bachelor has been beaten insensible on the stairway of his Mayfair flat, and invariably it turns out that he was a sod.
2. a. Used as a vulgar term of abuse for (usu.) a male person. Also with weakened force, as the equivalent of ‘fellow’, ‘chap’, freq. affectionately or in commiseration; odds and sods: see odds n. 7 b.
1818Sessions 17 June 283/2 As he passed me he said the other was a b—y s—d. 1931K. O'Brien Without my Cloak iii. xi. 380 That auld sod of a husband making her black and blue every night of his filthy life. 1931W. V. Tilsley Other Ranks 12 Lucky sods, getting this far and then going back. 1942G. Kersh Nine Lives Bill Nelson x. 61 There are plenty of sods in this battalion that get their pleasure by exercising their two-penny-ha'penny authority. 1942T. Rattigan Flare Path iii. 164 Johnny, you old sod! Is it really you? 1957I. Murdoch Sandcastle xiii. 210 He thought to himself, what a sod I am, what a poor confused sod. 1958‘E. O'Conner’ Steak for Breakfast 28 Good on yer, Martha, yer old sod! 1963T. Parker Unknown Citizen i. 40 Don't you call me a daft sod, you daft sod. 1968J. Braine Crying Game i. 18 It's time he was dead... If you want to destroy the sod, Frank, I'll give you absolutely all the dirt. 1969D. Wallace Turtle xiv. 148 That's a shame, the poor little dawg, but if that was moine I'd hev that put down. That can't help but make no end o' work, the poor little sod. 1974N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 201 Yes, now I remember him, cheeky young sod. 1978Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Aug. 31/7 And when they do, these lucky sods will forget years of fish-fib training and head pell mell for shore, seeking, of all things, the truth.
b. Something difficult; a great nuisance. slang.
1936‘G. Orwell’ Keep Aspidistra Flying i. 11 ‘Bare’ is a sod to ‘rhyme’; however, there's always ‘air’. 1950C. MacInnes To Victor Spoils i. 84 It'd be a sod if they got through to the Meuse. 1971V. Canning Firecrest i. 3 At least..he'd seen them come back, though it was a sod he'd missed them going off. 1977[see satin n. (and a.) 6 b].
c. sod-all, nothing, no. Cf. all A. 8 f. slang.
1958K. Amis I like it Here i. 12 There's been sod-all since. 1961I. Jefferies It wasn't Me! iii. 39 When I was at that pharmaceutical firm..I did sod-all for months on end. 1972J. Wainwright Requiem for Loser viii. 167 Like the concert hall... A bit of a stage—and sod-all else. 1978‘K. Blake’ Where Jungle Ends iii. 37 Here he was in this cold chill room, and two maniacs sitting playing cards at the table and taking sod-all notice of him.
d. not to give a sod = not to give a damn s.v. damn n. 2. slang.
1961B. W. Aldiss Primal Urge i. 29 Nobody gave a sod. Euphoria had its high tide. 1973D. Storey Temporary Life v. ii. 224, I don't give a sod for any of them, Phil.
e. Sod's Law = Murphy's law s.v. Murphy2 3.
1970New Statesman 9 Oct. 460/1 Sod's Law..is the force in nature which causes it to rain mostly at weekends, which makes you get flu when you are on holiday, and which makes the phone ring just as you've got into the bath. 1978New Scientist 7 Sept. 744/1 The great unshakeable list of interdisciplinary laws—Sod's Law, Newton's Fourth Law of Motion, the Inverse Midas Touch and their kin. 1980SLR Camera July 56/2 Even if you're using a masking frame this can easily over⁓balance. According to Sod's Law, that's going to happen when you're halfway through exposing a sheet of 20 × 16in colour paper costing the best part of {pstlg}1·30.
▪ IV. sod, n.4 Sc. dial.|sɒd|
[Origin unknown.]
The rock-dove, Columba livia.
1885C. Swainson Provincial Names & Folklore Brit. Birds 168 Sod (Forfar). 1913H. K. Swann Dict. Eng. & Folk-Names Brit. Birds 220 Sod, a Forfar name for the rock-dove. 1973Times 17 Feb. 14/8 How has the rock dove gained the title of ‘sod’?
▪ V. sod, v.1|sɒd|
[f. sod n.1 Cf. MDu. soden, zoden, LG. soden, söden, to make sods, lay with sods.]
trans. To cover or build up, to provide or lay, with sods or turfs; to turf.
1653W. Blithe Eng. Improver Impr. (ed. 3) 55 One good substantiall Dike, well turfed (or sodded, as the Fen-men call it). 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 42 Those Terraces must be supported..by some Banks that shall be sodded on purpose, to make them the more solid and lasting. 1704Dict. Rust. (1726) s.v. Brick, To sod, is to cover the Bricks. 1799[A. Young] Agric. Lincoln. 159 Bind the femble into sheaves or beats. Cart it to dykes, sod it. 1839Hood Storm at Hastings xxix, We snatch'd up the corse thus thrown, Intending, Christian-like, to sod and turf it. 1889Harper's Mag. Sept. 558/2 The slope was sodded and terraced with rows of seats.
b. Const. down, over, up.
1763Museum Rust. I. 368 A sorry mound of sods, with some bushes sodded down on top, to keep out sheep. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 81 Made up of mud and stones and sodded o'er. 1870Daily News 12 Nov., The..earthwork, so completely constructed as to have been sodded up with turf.
▪ VI. sod, v.2 Now dial.
[f. sod pa. pple.]
1. intr. To become sodden or soaked; to stick together through wetness.
1642D. Rogers Naaman 3 The tree which hath long lien sodding in the ditch. 1644Plattes in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 218 If Sand, whence comes its clamminess and aptness to sod together? a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 246 If the hay made of it sods a little in the wet,..it becomes tasteless.
2. trans. To soak with wet.
1895A. Patterson Man & Nat. on the Broads 125 Work on the land where wet grass an' rubbidge sod (soak) yer trowsers below.
▪ VII. sod, v.3 slang.
[f. sod n.3]
1. trans. = damn v. 5.
1904Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 605/2 Phr. sod him, may mischief befall him. w. Yks. Sod him, he can go to ―. 1942G. Kersh Nine Lives Bill Nelson i. 3 Well, sod the Drill Pig. 1945Penguin New Writing XXIII. 51 Sod that, chummie. 1953P. Scott Alien Sky i. viii. 131 At seven-fifteen they had to go out to dinner. Sod it. 1958― Mark of Warrior ii. 131 ‘Look, you'd better go sick.’.. ‘Sod you, Bob. I wouldn't miss it for the world.’ 1967J. Wain Smaller Sky 170 ‘He'll come out,’ said Swarthmore. ‘And if he doesn't, we'll sit where we are and you'll get paid for a full day's work, with overtime if necessary, and you won't have to do a stroke.’ ‘I'd rather be at home,’ said the chief cameraman, ‘and sod the overtime. I'm definitely sickening for something.’ 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 209 Quite a road! Sod me! I'll say it is! 1977Chainsaw Sept./Oct. 3/2 Sod it! There goes my banner headline.
2. intr. With off: to go away, depart. Also = get away s.v. get v. 61 b, and fig. Usu. in imp.
1960J. Symons Progress of Crime xv. 92 Now sod off and get your identification parade done. 1968Listener 14 Nov. 650/3 It's good to learn what Mr Reed said to the vicar who complained that boys had damaged a valuable rose tree: ‘I told him to sod off.’ 1971F. Forsyth Day of Jackal xx. 335 The policeman asked for papers. The Jackal giggled seductively... ‘Sod off,’ said the policeman and withdrew. 1976P. Cave High Flying Birds ii. 16 ‘Sod off,’ I said, ‘How can you call a glider a vehicle?’ 1977Observer 4 Sept. 14/2, I am simply waiting for the day when I can say ‘sod off’ to your institution. 1978I. Murdoch Sea 168 That's right, sod off just when..the light of understanding has dawned... Oh all right, sod off then!
Senses 1, 2 in Dict. become 2, 3. Add: 1. trans. (and absol.) = sodomize v.
1879Pearl I. 156 My arse he can't sod Because I am troubled with Fistula. 1976A. Powell Infants of Spring 79 It's a cold day for sodding.
▪ VIII. sod
obs. pa. tense of seethe v. |