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▪ I. sodding, (vbl.) n.|ˈsɒdɪŋ|
[f. sod v.1]
1. The action of covering, laying, or providing with sods.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 266/1 Soding, is the covering of little shourings and places of shade from Rain, with green Turfs or Grass Sods. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v., Sodding of brick. 1860B. Taylor in Life & Lett. I. xv. 206 We have done something at clearing away rubbish, sodding, and making the surroundings fair to look upon. 1864Atkinson Stanton Grange 111 The sodding of the roof was beautifully managed.
2. Sods or turfs as a material for forming or strengthening embankments, etc.
1852J. Wiggins Embanking 18 But if banks of sand are attempted..the front or facing [should be] guarded with clay, turf, sodding, and stones. 1867Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. III. ii. 664 A good sodding..might be made from the marram.
3. attrib., as sodding-implement, sodding-mallet, sodding-spade.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2237/2 Sodding-implements, tools for cutting sods and laying them down. 1891Cent. Dict. s.v., Sodding-mallet. Ibid., Sodding-spade.
▪ II. ˈsodding, ppl. a. and adv. slang.
[f. sod v.3]
A vague epithet expressing anger or contempt; freq. as a mere intensive.
1912D. H. Lawrence Let. 3 July (1962) I. 134 The miserable sodding rotters..that make up England today. 1929‘H. Green’ Living iii. 25 ‘It [sc. Australia] am a grand country’ 'e said to me, ‘this [sc. England] be a poor sodding place for a poor bleeder’, 'e said. ‘I'm for goin'.’ 1933M. Lowry Ultramarine 36, I don't know what you think you're doing idling round this sodding ship. 1950R. Godden Breath of Air xix. 235 ‘That's my sodding business,’ said McGinty. 1954K. Amis Lucky Jim xvii. 168 Cuts his own hair now, you see. Too sodding mean to pay out his one-and-six, that is what it is. My God. 1966M. Woodhouse Tree Frog xxi. 155 Hundred and twenty two semiconductors in there, all radiating heat... What are we supposed to do, sodding blow on them? 1968J. Braine Crying Game vi. 141 The bastard who was giving me dinner stood me up, and I shall sodding well ring him and tell him I'm going out with someone much nicer. 1976C. Storr Unnatural Fathers ii. 27 My sodding brother got into hospital and then dropped out before his finals. 1980D. Bogarde Gentle Occupation i. 24 I'll remember this sodding day until the day I die. |