1
: turf sense 1
also
: the grass- and forb-covered surface of the ground
2
: one's native land
Synonyms
Noun (1)
Noun (2)
- bastard
- beast
- bleeder [British]
- blighter [chiefly British]
- boor
- bounder
- bugger
- buzzard
- cad
- chuff
- churl
- clown
- creep
- cretin
- crud [slang]
- crumb [slang]
- cur
- dirtbag [slang]
- dog
- fink
- heel
- hound
- jerk
- joker
- louse
- lout
- pill
- rat
- rat fink
- reptile
- rotter
- schmuck [slang]
- scum
- scumbag [slang]
- scuzzball [slang]
- skunk
- sleaze
- sleazebag [slang]
- sleazeball [slang]
- slime
- slimeball [slang]
- slob
- snake
- so-and-so
- stinkard
- stinker
- swine
- toad
- varmint
- vermin
Examples of sod in a Sentence
Noun (1)
a sentimental journey back to the old sod
Noun (2)
he's a nasty old sod who never has a nice thing to say about anybody
Recent Examples on the Web
Yannic Rack, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
New lawns can be established from seed, sod or plugs
19.
—Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024
Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024
The protesters want the city to clean up the cemetery, put up gravemarkers and re-sod the area that workers destroyed with the dirt piles.
—Ernie Suggs, ajc, 26 July 2021
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Noun
For five weeks leading up to this, a few hundred riders join twice-weekly excursions across the surrounding hills to visit villages and symbolically mark the old borders of their commons by turning over a small patch of sod.
—Yannic Rack, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
New lawns can be established from seed, sod or plugs
19.
—Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024
Verb
Avoid sodding shady spots during the rainy season to prevent decline due to rot problems.
—Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024
The protesters want the city to clean up the cemetery, put up gravemarkers and re-sod the area that workers destroyed with the dirt piles.
—Ernie Suggs, ajc, 26 July 2021
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“Sod.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sod. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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sod
1 of 2 noun1
a
b
: the grass-covered and herb-covered surface of the ground
2
: one's native land
sod
2 of 2 verb
sodded; sodding
: to cover with sod or turfs
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