sod

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a piece or layer of grass-covered surface soil held together by its roots

   Workers laid fresh sod over the bare soil beside the new path.

2. 2
   noun

   a person, especially one regarded with annoyance, contempt, or pity; informal British English

   The poor sod had waited in the rain for a bus that never came.

3. 3
   verb

   to cover an area of ground with pieces of grass-covered turf

   The landscapers will sod the yard after they finish grading it.

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The turf noun comes from Middle English sod or sodde, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German words for turf; the landscaping verb developed from that noun. The informal British noun is historically a shortening of sodomite, from the biblical place-name Sodom, but its modern uses have broadened and usually carry no literal sexual sense.

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