Definitions for sod

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IPA: /sɒd/

Sod is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in sod (dos).

Definitions for sod

noun

1. a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
2. the surface of the ground, especially when covered with grass; turf; sward.
3. sodomite; homosexual.
4. chap; fellow; guy.
5. child; kid; brat.
6. the act of seething.
7. the state of being agitated or excited.

verb

1. simple past tense of seethe.

Verb phrases

1. sod off, to leave (usually as an imperative):

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with sods or sod.
2. to damn:
3. to soak or steep.
4. to cook by boiling or simmering; boil.

verb (used without object)

1. to surge or foam as if boiling.
2. to be in a state of agitation or excitement.
3. Archaic. to boil.

Origin of sod

1375-1425; late Middle English Middle Dutch or Middle Low German sode turf

Examples for sod

This sod hut was about twelve feet high and eight feet in diameter.

Then with sod and earth he covered it all over so as to hide it from view.

A semi-circular section of the sod where Helen had stood was missing.

I've heard the boys say that he would be undher the sod that day six months.

Are we two going to quarrel about a phrase while our clansmen's blood is crying from the sod?

At the latter place we built a sod fort and I was in charge.

“For some reason I thought, Oh, sod it, I will sign up,” he says.

They painted his house, maintained his yard, replaced the sod, installed artificial turf, and planted and moved shrubbery.

It may be an archery target, a sack full of straw, or a sod bank.

By another method two acres a day on the sod have been planted.