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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A section of grass-covered surface soil held together by matted roots; turf.
  2. n. The ground, especially when covered with grass.
  3. v. To cover with sod.
  4. n. A sodomite.
  5. n. A person regarded as obnoxious or contemptible.
  6. n. A fellow; a guy: "Poor sod, he almost got lucky for once” ( Jack Higgins).
  7. v. To damn.
  8. sod off Used in the imperative to dismiss someone angrily.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. 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.
  2. n. A piece of this grassy stratum pared or pulled off; a turf; a divot or fail.
  3. To cover with sod; turf.
  4. An obsolete preterit and past participle of seethe.

Wiktionary

  1. n. That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
  2. n. Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.
  3. n. Sodomite; bugger.
  4. n. A person, usually male. (mildly pejorative, often qualified with an adjective).
  5. n. A damper (the food) which has failed to rise when cooked (remaining a flat lump).
  6. v. To cover with sod.
  7. v. Bugger; sodomize.
  8. v. Damn, curse, confound.
  9. v. Simple past of seethe.
  10. interj. expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.
  11. adj. Boiled.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The rock dove.
  2. imp. of seethe.
  3. n. That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
  4. v. To cover with sod; to turf.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an informal British term for a youth or man
  2. v. cover with sod
  3. n. an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of superoxide into hydrogen peroxide and oxygen
  4. n. someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
  5. n. surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch sode.Short for sodomite.

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  • mollusque Thanks, yarb!     Wish I'd known that all along. I wonder what other html works that John hasn't told us about? Jun 28, 2008

  • asativum Sionnach, I think you mispronounced that. Jun 27, 2008

  • sionnach Did someone say "Hwaet!"? Jun 26, 2008

  • yarb 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. Jun 26, 2008

  • mollusque Yarb, how'd you get the extra spaces in there? Jun 26, 2008

  • rolig In Slovene, the adjective sod means "even, divisible by two": soda števila "even numbers". Jun 26, 2008

  • yarb 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 Jun 26, 2008

  • yarb Citation on nympho. Jun 22, 2008

‘sod’ has been looked up 2187 times, loved by 2 people, added to 19 lists, commented on 8 times, and has a Scrabble score of 4.