Noun

(en noun)

* {{quote-book, year=1856, author=Nesta H. Webster, title=Secret Societies And Subversive Movements, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=In the Rite of Perfection as worked in France and America this Cabalistic influence is shown in those degrees known under the name of the "Ineffable Degrees," derived from the Jewish belief in the mystery that surrounds the Ineflable Name of God. According to the custom of the Jews, the sacred name Jehovah or Jah-ve, composed of the four letters yod , he, vau, he, which formed the Tetragrammaton, was never to be pronounced by the profane, who were obliged to substitute for it the word "Adonai." }}

* {{quote-book, year=1882, author=Albert G. Mackey, title=The Symbolism of Freemasonry, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It is really a corruption of, or perhaps rather a substitution for, the Hebrew letter (yod ), which is the initial of the ineffable name. }}

(phonetics) A palatal approximant.

* 1976 , Michael L. Mazzola, Proto-Romance and Sicilian , Peter de Ridder Press, ISBN 90-316-0088-1, page 104:

A statement of consonantal changes for Sicilian is dependent on the development of two sets of clusters, consonant plus yod and consonant plus .

* 1984 , Frederick B. Agard, A Course in Romance Linguistics , volume 2, Georgetown University Press, ISBN 0-87840-089-3, page 75:

Wherever in the West (including northern Italia) the fricative allophone still remains…it now becomes semivocalized as yod', or more probably voiceless ' yod ….

* 2008 , Philippe Ségéral & Tobias Scheer, "Positional Factors in Lenition and Fortition", in Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho et al. (eds.), Lenition and Fortition , Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-020608-1, page 152:

Word-initial yod', however, does not strengthen in either of the dialects considered, which respond to Polish ''jab?ko'', ''jagoda'', ''jelén'', ''jutro'' (all ([j-])) "apple, berry, deer, tomorrow" with unaltered initial ' yod .

Noun

(head)

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Booth Tarkington, title=Gentle Julia, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=An' every blessed minute I stannin' there, can't I hear that ole Miz Blatch nex' do', out in her back yod' an' her front ' yod , an' plum out in the street, hollerin': 'Kitty? }}

Noun

(-)

(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

She there shall dress a sweeter sod / Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.

Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.

The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.

Noun

(en noun)

(British, vulgar) Sodomite; bugger.

(British, slang, mildly pejorative, formerly considered vulgar) A person, usually male; (often qualified with an adjective).

You mean old sod !

poor sod

unlucky sod

Noun

(en noun)

(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:

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.

Noun

(en noun)

The rock dove.