Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of sod.
- adj. mildly vulgar An intensifier.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Examples
“Obama is just giving the Republicans a distraction to spend their political capital on — namely, striking contraceptives, STD prevention and Mall re-sodding from the bill — so that he and the Democrats can get on with the serious business of crafting a stimulus bill that work.”
“Funnily enough, we have a new Portugese kid at our school who, surprise surprise, doesn't speak a sodding word of English.”
“The main course is some kind of sodding macaroni with stew or potato with gravy.”
“You don't get to vote on the sodding boundary changes, they've already been pretty much guaranteed by being rushed through parliament tied to your precious AV bill.”
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“No. The Republicans would prefer more sodding tax cuts.”
“So they oppose the bill because obviously that is to much for a re-sodding job.”
“If only they had left the funding for re-sodding the Mall in there. rmwarnick Says:”
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“Conservative friends claim it will only pay for re-sodding the mall.”
“Do you actually think that without funding for re-sodding the National Mall, the stimulus package will fail?”
“So we've got free-flowing traffic coming OUT of town, a 2-mile queue on the only main road IN, no enforcement of the box junctions meaning they get blocked, and I end up trying to turn right into static traffic with everyone desperately staring forward, suffering tunnel vision, not daring to allow anyone out of side turnings in case they miss the microscopic window when the sodding lights in that direction are green.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sodding’.
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britishisms
A tip of my hat to the snarkiest of English dialects. Here here!
Ponce, snog, bloody, barmy, blasted, blooming, bleeding, knackered, poppycock, wanker, tosser, cracked and 52 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
A little of the old Ultra-Violence
Gorgeousness and Gorgeosity made flesh- downright horrorshow selections of vocabulary from Nadsat, the Russian-influenced slang of the raping and face-stomping delinquents of Burgess's A Clockwork ...
appypolly loggy, baboochka, baddiwad, banda, bezoomy, bitva, bog, bolnoy, bolshy, bratchny, bratty, britva and 186 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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not for mixed company
sodding, git, trollop, bitch, sissy, bastard, strumpet, pillock, quack, scallywag, cad, minx and 23 more...
Tweets
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kewpid bowdlerized form of fucking Sep 21, 2007
akmed13 S: (adj) arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated (without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers) "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth".
Example (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer):
Spike: Buffy, Buffy, Buffy! Everywhere I turn she's there. That nasty little face. That fancy shampoo commercial hair. That whole sodding holier-than-thou attitude.
Sep 20, 2007