sodding
sodding Lexical Profile
sodding Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
British Used as a vulgar intensifier to express annoyance, anger, or contempt toward a person or thing.
"The sodding train was delayed again this morning."
• adverb
British Used as a vulgar intensifier meaning extremely or very, especially to emphasize frustration.
"It is sodding cold outside today."
• noun
The act or process of covering the ground with sod or turf.
"The landscaping crew completed the sodding of the front lawn before the rain began."
• verb
To cover a surface of ground with sod or turf (present participle of sod).
"The gardeners spent the afternoon sodding the bare patches on the golf course."
Word Nuance & Usage
As an adjective and adverb, 'sodding' is a mild-to-moderate British slang expletive that can only be used attributively before a noun or modifier (e.g., 'the sodding car', 'sodding awful'), whereas the noun sense referring to laying grass turf is standard and neutral across all English dialects.
• Rhymes for sodding
Word Origin & Etymology
The horticultural noun and verb derive from Middle English 'sod', meaning a piece of turf. The British slang intensifier derives from 'sod', a 19th-century shortening of 'sodomite'.