Sodden vs Sudden - What's the difference?
sodden | sudden |
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.
Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
*, chapter=1
, title= (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
* Shakespeare
As adjectives the difference between sodden and sudden
is that sodden is soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated while sudden is happening quickly and with little or no warning.As a verb sodden
is to drench, soak or saturate.As an adverb sudden is
suddenly.As a noun sudden is
an unexpected occurrence; a surprise.sodden
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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.
sudden
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- Never was such a sudden scholar made.
- the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye
- I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden