Soddie vs Voddie - What's the difference?
soddie | voddie |
(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 ,
* 1995 , Julie Garwood, Prince Charming ,
* 2004 , Marie Kramer, Grandchildren of the Pioneers ,
* 2010 , Brenda K. Marshall, Dakota, Or What's a Heaven For ,
As nouns the difference between soddie and voddie
is that soddie is a house constructed from blocks of sod, once common in the prairies of the United States and Canada while voddie is an alternative form of lang=en.soddie
English
(sod house)Alternative forms
* soddyNoun
(en noun)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.
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- I learned how to make a soddie into a home.
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- “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.”
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- It is better now that we do not live in the soddie , but to Mor it does not seem better.