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Sod can be an adjective, an interjection, a noun or a verb.

sod used as an adjective:

  1. Boiled.

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

sod used as an interjection:

  1. expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.

An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →

sod used as a noun:

  1. That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
  2. 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."
  3. Sodomite; bugger.
  4. A person, usually male. (mildly pejorative, often qualified with an adjective).
    "You mean old sod!; poor sod; unlucky sod"
  5. A damper (the food) which has failed to rise when cooked (remaining a flat lump).
    "1954: 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. — Tom Ronan, Vision Splendid, 1954, quoted in Tom Burton, Words in Your Ear, Wakefield Press, 1999, ISBN 1-86254-475-1, page 120"

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

sod used as a verb:

  1. To cover with sod.
    "He sodded the worn areas twice a year."
  2. Bugger; sodomize.
  3. Damn, curse, confound.
    "Sod him!, Sod it!, Sod that bastard!"

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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As detailed above, 'sod' can be an adjective, an interjection, a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.
  2. Noun usage: You mean old sod!; poor sod; unlucky sod
  3. Noun usage: 1954: 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. — Tom Ronan, Vision Splendid, 1954, quoted in Tom Burton, Words in Your Ear, Wakefield Press, 1999, ISBN 1-86254-475-1, page 120
  4. Verb usage: He sodded the worn areas twice a year.
  5. Verb usage: Sod him!, Sod it!, Sod that bastard!

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of sod are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of sod, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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