Sod
[sɒd] or [sɑd]
Definition
(noun.) an informal British term for a youth or man; 'the poor sod couldn't even buy a drink'.
(verb.) cover with sod.
Typed by Blanche--From WordNet
Definition
(-) of Seethe
(n.) The rock dove.
(-) imp. of Seethe.
(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.
(v. t.) To cover with sod; to turf.
Edited by Johanna
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Turf, clod.
Inputed by Frances
Definition
n. any surface of earth grown with grass &c.: turf.—adj. consisting of sod.—v.t. to cover with sod.—adj. Sod′dy covered with sod: turfy.—The old sod one's native soil.
obsolete pa.t. of seethe.
Checked by Barry
Examples
- Oh, the dirty, vile, treacherous sod. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- That break is a dell--a deep, hollow cup, lined with turf as green and short as the sod of this common. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Here is the place--green sod and a gray marble headstone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His friends mourn and weep, but he is at rest: he does not now feel the murderer's grasp; a sod covers his gentle form, and he knows no pain. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Mrs. Helstone was hardly under the sod when rumours began to be rife in the neighbourhood that she had died of a broken heart. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You bleary-eyed murderous sod, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He died embracing the sod, which was piled above his breast, when he was placed beside the beings whom he regretted with such wild despair. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This done, I rested, leaning against the tree; lingering, like any other mourner, beside a newly-sodded grave. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Typist: Maura