sod
IPA: sˈɑd
noun
- (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.
- (uncountable) Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.
- (countable) A piece of this.
- (Britain, Ireland, vulgar) Sodomite; bugger. (Out dated)
- (Britain, Ireland, slang, mildly derogatory, formerly considered vulgar) A person; often qualified with an adjective.
- (Britain, Ireland, mildly vulgar) Any trifling amount, a bugger, a damn, a jot.
- (Australia, colloquial) A damper (bread) which has failed to rise, remaining a flat lump.
- The rock dove.
- Abbreviation of superoxide dismutase.
- (business) Abbreviation of start of day.
- (security) Initialism of separation of duties. [(security) The requirement that two or more people must be involved in order to complete a high-risk task.]
verb
- To cover with sod.
- (transitive, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, vulgar) Bugger; sodomize.
- (transitive, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, vulgar) Damn, curse, confound.
adjective
- (obsolete) Boiled.
- (Australia, of bread) Sodden; incompletely risen.
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Examples of "sod" in Sentences
- He is such a sod.
- I am the mono lingual sod.
- Who do you think is a sod
- No flowers emblazon the sod.
- The man cuts sod in the middle of the night.
- The boy mowed the sod in front of his house.
- There are many different kids of bugs living on sod.
- The first sod had been cut by the Earl of Ellesmere.
- You and your telescope; that is what we Brits call sod's law.
- The main purpose of the sod is to hold the birch bark in place.
- All of us “civilized Westerners” would still be living in sod huts.
- The soil is then nicely graded and the sod is installed on top of it.
- The Korean sod is ecologically barren, and who wants more lawn, really?
- Not only does it take time to cut, compose and hammer, but the sod is uneasy too.
- It seemed as if I should never be satisfied till I had felt the sod under my feet, sod in the Mulberry Bend!
- In the 1800's Americans used to live out on the prairies in sod huts before the days of the microwave burrito.
- Because some middle class sod is too lazy and too dumb to test the water from the taps as one does BEFORE putting the plug in?
- Bit like now I suppose, sruggling in the half light trying to overcome an insurmountable problem while some treacly sod is in the background telling you how to go about it without having to demonstrate.
- There are umpteen pressure groups from so called minorities, all busy being ‘offended’ or at least told that they should be offended so that as much fuss can be made as possible, and some poor sod is hauled over the coals.
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