Sodden vs Sodded - What's the difference?
sodden | sodded |
Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
* 1810 , , Volume XII, 4th Edition,
* 1895 February, James Rodway, Nature's Triumph'', '' ,
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
(figuratively) Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
* 1857 , , 1899, Reprint Edition,
* 2010 , , The Cameron Delusion ,
To drench, soak or saturate.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To become soaked.
(sod)
(uncountable) That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
* Collins
Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.
To cover with sod.
(British, vulgar) Sodomite; bugger.
(British, slang, mildly pejorative, formerly considered vulgar) A person, usually male; (often qualified with an adjective).
(UK, vulgar) expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.
(transitive, British, slang, vulgar) Bugger; sodomize.
(transitive, British, slang, vulgar) Damn, curse, confound.
(obsolete) (seethe)
(obsolete) Boiled.
*, New York, 2001, p.223:
(Australia, of bread) Sodden; incompletely risen.
(Australia, colloquial) A damper (bread) which has failed to rise, remaining a flat lump.
* 1954 , Tom Ronan, Vision Splendid'', quoted in Tom Burton, ''Words in Your Ear , Wakefield Press (1999), ISBN 1-86254-475-1, page 120:
As verbs the difference between sodden and sodded
is that sodden is to drench, soak or saturate while sodded is (sod).As an adjective sodden
is soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.sodden
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 702,
- It is found, indeed, that meat, roa?ted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ?odden than when coal is employed for that purpo?e.
page 460,
- The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden .
- A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
page 60,
- With this profession of faith, the doctor, who was an old jail-bird, and was more sodden than usual, and had the additional and unusual stimulus of money in his pocket, returned to his associate and chum in hoarseness, puffiness, redfacedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy.
page 79,
- I would have done too, but alcohol makes me so ill that I couldn't (I mention this to make it clear that I don't claim any moral superiority over my more sodden colleagues).
Derived terms
* soddenly * soddennessVerb
(en verb)- But as I lay asleep the top had been pressed off the box, and the tinder got loose in my pocket; and though I picked the tinder out easily enough, and got it in the box again, yet the salt damps of the place had soddened it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint.
sodded
English
Verb
(head)sod
English
Etymology 1
(en)Noun
(-)- She there shall dress a sweeter sod / Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
- The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.
Verb
(sodd)- He sodded the worn areas twice a year.
Etymology 2
From sodomize, by shorteningNoun
(en noun)- You mean old sod !
- poor sod
- unlucky sod
Derived terms
* Sod’s lawInterjection
(en interjection)Verb
(sodd)- Sod''' him!'', '''''Sod''' it!'', '''''Sod that bastard!
Derived terms
* sod offEtymology 3
Originally a the past participle ((sodden)).Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Beer, if it be over-new, or over-stale, over-strong, or not sod ,is most unwholesome, frets, and galls, etc.
- sod damper
Noun
(en noun)- And Mart the cook the shovel took / And swung the damper to and fro. / 'Another sod , so help me God, / That's fourteen in a flamin' row.