sodyn.
U.S. regional and colloquial.
= soda n.1 (esp. in sense 4b).
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1900 Dial. Notes 1 241 Soda. Always sôdi in Kansas City.
1906 J. London White Fang i. ii. 17 Swallow a spoonful of sody, an' you'll sweeten up wonderful.
1907 Dial. Notes 3 200 Sody, n., soda; either bicarbonate of soda or soda water. ‘Have a glass of sody with me?’ The normal pronunciation seems affected.
1951 W. Faulkner Requiem for Nun iii. 267 She's usually got a bottle of sody pop in the icebox.
1975 B. Garfield Hopscotch viii. 86 There was even a sody-cracker barrel by the fountain.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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