as in home
the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship
a sentimental journey back to the old sod
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as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
he's a nasty old sod who never has a nice thing to say about anybody
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Recent Examples of sod
Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Wet it down and then compact it with a sod roller, available at rental yards.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2025
At the time, fewer than 100 residents lived in this remote Inupiat village, where remnants of sod houses built with whale ribs for beams still stood.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 30 Jan. 2025
Its most famous residents are the goats on the sod roof of Al Johnson’s, a Swedish log-cabin-style restaurant that nods to the huge Scandinavian community that settled here in the 1800s.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
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About 18 hours later, an employee of the sod farm found the Malnorys' bodies.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Wet it down and then compact it with a sod roller, available at rental yards.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2025
At the time, fewer than 100 residents lived in this remote Inupiat village, where remnants of sod houses built with whale ribs for beams still stood.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 30 Jan. 2025
Its most famous residents are the goats on the sod roof of Al Johnson’s, a Swedish log-cabin-style restaurant that nods to the huge Scandinavian community that settled here in the 1800s.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Sod.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sod. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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