Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A section of grass-covered surface soil held together by matted roots; turf.
  • noun The ground, especially when covered with grass.
  • transitive verb To cover with sod.
  • noun A sodomite.
  • noun A person regarded as obnoxious or contemptible.
  • noun A fellow; a guy.
  • transitive verb To damn.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete preterit and past participle of seethe.
  • To cover with sod; turf.
  • noun The upper stratum of grass-land, containing the roots of grass and the other herbs that may be growing in it; the sward or turf.
  • noun A piece of this grassy stratum pared or pulled off; a turf; a divot or fail.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The rock dove.
  • imp. of seethe.
  • transitive verb To cover with sod; to turf.
  • noun That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete Simple past of seethe.
  • adjective obsolete Boiled.
  • adjective Australia Sodden; incompletely risen.
  • noun Australia, colloquial A damper (bread) which has failed to rise, remaining a flat lump.
  • 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.
  • noun Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.
  • verb To cover with sod.
  • noun UK, vulgar Sodomite; bugger.
  • noun UK, slang, mildly pejorative, formerly considered vulgar A person, usually male; often qualified with an adjective.
  • interjection UK, vulgar expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.
  • verb transitive, UK, slang, vulgar Bugger; sodomize.
  • verb transitive, UK, slang, vulgar Damn, curse, confound.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an informal British term for a youth or man
  • verb cover with sod
  • noun an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of superoxide into hydrogen peroxide and oxygen
  • noun someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
  • noun surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch sode.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Short for sodomite.]

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Originally a back-formation from the past participle (sodden).

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From sodomize, by shortening

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  • Citation on nympho.

    June 22, 2008

  • Hwaet! When he went,       as hordes will one day,

    this provincial sod,       who some say poeticised,

    was missed by a wife,       a mother and one

    or two other women -       no workmates spilt tears.

    - Peter Reading, Remaindered, from Fiction, 1979

    June 26, 2008

  • In Slovene, the adjective sod means "even, divisible by two": soda števila "even numbers".

    June 26, 2008

  • Yarb, how'd you get the extra spaces in there?

    June 27, 2008

  • I used non-breaking spaces, mollusque - an ampersand followed by "nbsp" - make sure you add a real space after your string of non-breaking spaces (i.e. before the text). I think I used four or five for each gap here.

    June 27, 2008

  • Did someone say "Hwaet!"?

    June 27, 2008

  • Sionnach, I think you mispronounced that.

    June 27, 2008

  • Thanks, yarb!     Wish I'd known that all along. I wonder what other html works that John hasn't told us about?

    June 28, 2008