Sod

Noun

 * 1)  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) Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.
 * The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.

Verb

 * 1) To cover with sod.
 * He sodded the worn areas twice a year.

Noun

 * 1)  Sodomite; bugger.
 * 2)  A person, usually male. (mildly pejorative, often qualified with an adjective).
 * You mean old sod!; poor sod; unlucky sod''
 * 1)  A damper (the food) which has failed to rise when cooked (remaining a flat lump).
 * 1954: And Mart the cook the shovel took And swung the damper to and fro. 'Another sod, so help me God, That's fourteen in a flamin' row. &mdash; Tom Ronan, Vision Splendid, 1954, quoted in Tom Burton, Words in Your Ear, Wakefield Press, 1999, ISBN 1-86254-475-1, page 120

Derived terms

 * Sod’s law

Interjection

 * 1)  expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.

Verb

 * 1)  Bugger; sodomize.
 * 2)  Damn, curse, confound.
 * Sod him!, Sod it!, Sod that bastard!

Derived terms

 * sod off

Adjective

 * 1)  Boiled.
 * 2) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 223:
 * Beer, if it be over-new, or over-stale, over-strong, or not sod, [...] is most unwholesome, frets, and galls, etc.

Adjectives for Sod
peace-giving; stubborn; velvet; verdant; spongy; lifeless; moldering.

Thesaurus
acres, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, bugger, clay, clod, crust, cur, dirt, divot, dog, dry land, dust, earth, freehold, glebe, grassland, greensward, ground, land, landholdings, lithosphere, louse, marginal land, marl, mold, puke, real estate, real property, region, regolith, scum, skunk, snake, soil, subaerial deposit, subsoil, sward, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, topsoil, turf, woodland, wretch

Etymology 2
From sodomize, by shortening

Etymology 3
Orignally a back-formation from the past participle (sodden:).

Noun

 * Finnish: juurikerros
 * Russian: дёрн


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Finnish: siirtonurmi
 * French:


 * Scottish Gaelic:

Verb

 * French:

Anagrams

 * DOS, DoS, do's, dos, DSO, dso, ODS, ods, SDO

Noun
sod m


 * 1) imbecile

Noun

 * 1) soot

Etymology
From sót:.

Noun
sod m


 * 1) barrel

Etymology
Common Slavic sud