| 释义 |
soddy, a. and n.|ˈsɒdɪ|
[f. sod n.1 + -y.]
A. adj. Abounding in sods; consisting or composed of sods; of the nature of a sod.
1611Cotgr., Motteux, cloddie, turfie, soddie. 1778[W. H. Marshall] Minutes Agric., Observ. 98 By burying the soddy edge of the Plit, they are now less grassy than the Leys were before plowing. 1846Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VII. i. 168 Reduce the soddy texture of the soil.
B. n.
1. A sod-house. Western N. Amer.
1877H. Ruede Let. 24 Apr. in J. Ise Sod-Louse Days (1937) 57 Many of the young bachelors..were building their own ‘soddies’. 1893Pilgrim Missionary June 8/1 Brother T― has a large circuit of three churches, and lives in a ‘soddy’. 1970Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 29 Nov. 10/4 It was a sort of soddy, the rear dug into a cut⁓bank.
2. One who occupies or who has occupied a sod-house.
1958[see sodbuster]. 1977Westworld (Vancouver, B.C.) May–June 6/2, I..received a nicely decorated certificate to the effect that I was a Soddy. |