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Soddie vs Hoddie - What's the difference?

soddie | hoddie |

As nouns the difference between soddie and hoddie

is that soddie is a house constructed from blocks of sod, once common in the prairies of the United States and Canada while hoddie is a bricklayer's or mason's laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod.

soddie

English

(sod house)

Alternative forms

* soddy

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, Canada, informal) A house constructed from blocks of sod, once common in the prairies of the United States and Canada.
  • * 1988 , Glenda Riley, The Female Frontier , page 87,
    • The soddie could be a freestanding structure made of slabs of sod cut by a plow, or it could be a dugout partially bored into the side of a hill or into the ground.
  • * 1995 , Julie Garwood, Prince Charming , page 247,
    • I learned how to make a soddie into a home.
  • * 2004 , Marie Kramer, Grandchildren of the Pioneers , page 56,
    • “Living in a soddy'!” exclaimed Marie. “I didn't know there was anyone alive today who lived in a '''soddy'''. In our part of Nebraska, ' soddies went out of existence around the beginning of the 1900s.”
    “Oh, we had soddies' for a long time after that,” said Robert. “This area was too poor to afford lumber for housing. Quite a few of us lived in ' soddies when we were kids.”
  • * 2010 , Brenda K. Marshall, Dakota, Or What's a Heaven For , unnumbered page,
    • It is better now that we do not live in the soddie , but to Mor it does not seem better.

    hoddie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bricklayer's or mason's laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod.

    • Synonyms

    * hod carrier * hodman