soddenadj.1n.
/ˈsɒd(ə)n/ A. adj.1
1. † b. In the proverbial phrase coleworts twice (etc.) sodden: (see colewort n. 4).
a. Boiled; cooked or prepared by boiling. Now rare or Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > boiling or boiled
sod1297
sodden1382
playing1440
boileda1475
coct1497
cocted1625
seethed1775
pred.
attributive.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. ii. 15 I shal not take..sothen [a1425 L.V. sodun] flesh, but rawe.c1400 Three Kings Cologne 94 Þis bawme is cleped rawe bawme and the toþer is callid soden bawme.1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.viv On that daye ye shall serue..soden egges with grene sauce.1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 217 Dronken in sodden wine it preserveth from dronkennesse.1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. 7 They were feine to eat Dogs, Cats, Rats, sodden Leather.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 134 Mix it with thicken'd Juice of sodden Wines. View more context for this quotation1780 Encycl. Brit. V. 3571/1 The snails were fed with bran and sodden wine.1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Sodden-wheat, furmety.1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 297 These, with bran mashes, sodden oats, and exercise, will generally effect a cure.in extended use.1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. i. 41 Pan. My businesse seeth's. Man. Sodden businesse, theirs a stew'd phrase indeed. View more context for this quotation1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. vi. 19 A shuldre sothen [v.rr. sodden, sooden, sodyn, soothen, a1425 L.V. sodun] of the wether.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13373 Þe folk þat dai ful fair was fedd, O bred and flexs bath soþen and bredd.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xix. 208 Thei bryngen..mete alle soden.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 67 Thenne abygail hyed her & toke..v weders sothen.
1570 H. Lloyde tr. John XXI Treasury of Healthe M v Lay a hoole egge wel sodden and the shel pylled of.
1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Epigram i. sig. A4 Beere he protestes is sodden and refin'd.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §385 It were good therefore to try it..with Milk Sodden.
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the mind > language > speech > repetition > [phrase] > something repeated
coleworts twice (etc.) sodden1577
1577 W. Fulke Answer True Christian 84 in Two Treat. against Papistes These colewortes haue bene sodden twise or thryse already.
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 55v The fourth crime..is coalewortes more than tenne times sodden.
1608 S. Hieron Answere to Popish Rhyme (ed. 2) To Rdr. To redoe things once done, or to oppresse mens stomachs with twise sodden Coleworts, as the prouerb is.
1614 W. Bradshaw Unreasonableness Separation 83 Some of his own cole-worts, not twice, but twenty times sodden.
2. 1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning i. vi His complexion was pale and sodden.1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xiv. 202 Gaunt, ragged, sodden, blear-eyed, drivelling, the worn-out gin-drinker stood.1896 W. D. Howells Impressions & Experiences 74 The soddenest habitué of the place brightened.
a. Of persons, their features, etc.: Having the appearance of, or resembling, that which has been soaked or steeped in water; rendered dull, stupid, or expressionless, esp. owing to drunkenness or indulgence in intoxicants; pale and flaccid.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > not manifesting emotion
stolidc1600
sodden1601
inexpressive1744
neutral1760
expressionless1831
fishy-eyed1836
undemonstrative1846
contained1882
dead-pan1928
stone-faced1932
tight-assed1961
tight-ass1969
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [adjective] > pale and flaccid
sodden1601
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > insensibly drunk
dead drunk1599
to drink (a person) dead drunk1609
paralytic1843
sodden1850
paralysed1870
speechless1881
drunk and incapable1883
dead-oh1889
rumdum1891
passed-out1927
out to it1941
trashed1966
wiped1966
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. v. sig. I3 By Gods will, I scorne him, as I do the sodden Nimph..his mistris Arete.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xvi. 18 The stuffe we haue, a strong winde will blowe it to peeces, they are so pittifully sodden . View more context for this quotation
1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle v. sig. K1 Now you with the sodden face, keepe in there.
b. Characterized by heaviness, dullness, or want of vivacity.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]
sloweOE
stuntc960
dullOE
hardOE
stuntlyc1000
sotc1050
dillc1175
dulta1225
simplea1325
heavy1340
astonedc1374
sheepishc1380
dull-witteda1387
lourd1390
steerishc1411
ass-likea1425
brainless?a1439
deafc1440
sluggishc1450
short-witted1477
obtuse1509
peakish1519
wearish1519
deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520
doileda1522
gross1526
headlessa1530
stulty1532
ass-headed1533
pot-headed1533
stupid?1541
sheep's head1542
doltish1543
dumpish1545
assish1548
blockish1548
slow-witted1548
blockheaded1549
surd1551
dull-headed1552
hammer-headed1552
skit-brained?1553
buzzardly1561
witless1562
log-headeda1566
assy1566
sottish1566
dastardly1567
stupidious1567
beetle-headed1570
calvish1570
bluntish1578
cod's-headed1578
grout-headed1578
bedaft1579
dull-pated1580
blate1581
buzzard-like1581
long-eared1582
dullard1583
woodena1586
duncical1588
leaden-headed1589
buzzard1592
dorbellical1592
dunstical1592
heavy-headeda1593
shallow-brained1592
blunt-witted1594
mossy1597
Bœotian1598
clay-brained1598
fat1598
fat-witted1598
knotty-pated1598
stupidous1598
wit-lost1599
barren1600
duncifiedc1600
lourdish1600
stockish1600
thick1600
booby1603
leaden-pated1603
partless1603
thin-headed1603
leaden-skulledc1604
blockhead1606
frost-brained1606
ram-headed1608
beef-witted1609
insulse1609
leaden-spirited1609
asininec1610
clumse1611
blockheadly1612
wattle-headed1613
flata1616
logger-headeda1616
puppy-headeda1616
shallow-patedc1616
thick-brained1619
half-headed1621
buzzard-blinda1625
beef-brained1628
toom-headed1629
thick-witted1634
woollen-witted1635
squirrel-headed1637
clod-pated1639
lean-souled1639
muddy-headed1642
leaden-witteda1645
as sad as any mallet1645
under-headed1646
fat-headed1647
half-witted1647
insipid1651
insulsate1652
soft-headed1653
thick-skulleda1657
muddish1658
non-intelligent1659
whey-brained1660
sap-headed1665
timber-headed1666
leather-headeda1668
out of (one's) tree1669
boobily1673
thoughtless1673
lourdly1674
logger1675
unintelligenta1676
Bœotic1678
chicken-brained1678
under-witted1683
loggerhead1684
dunderheaded1692
unintelligible1694
buffle-headed1697
crassicc1700
numbskulled1707
crassous1708
doddy-polled1708
haggis-headed1715
niddy-noddy1722
muzzy1723
pudding-headed1726
sumphish1728
pitcher-souleda1739
duncey1743
hebete1743
chuckheaded1756
dumb1756
duncely1757
imbecile1766
mutton-headed1768
chuckle-headed1770
jobbernowl1770
dowfarta1774
boobyish1778
wittol1780
staumrel1787
opaquec1789
stoopid1791
mud-headed1793
borné1795
muzzy-headed1798
nog-headed1800
thick-headed1801
gypit1804
duncish1805
lightweight1809
numbskull1814
tup-headed1816
chuckle-pate1820
unintellectuala1821
dense1822
ninnyish1822
dunch1825
fozy1825
potato-headed1826
beef-headed1828
donkeyish1831
blockheadish1833
pinheaded1837
squirrel-minded1837
pumpkin-headed1838
tomfoolish1838
dundering1840
chicken-headed1842
like a bump on a log1842
ninny-minded1849
numbheadeda1852
nincompoopish1852
suet-brained1852
dolly1853
mullet-headed1853
sodden1853
fiddle-headed1854
numb1854
bovine1855
logy1859
crass1861
unsmart1861
off his chump1864
wooden-headed1865
stupe1866
lean-minded1867
duffing1869
cretinous1871
doddering1871
thick-head1873
doddling1874
stupido1879
boneheaded1883
woolly-headed1883
leaden-natured1889
suet-headed1890
sam-sodden1891
dopey1896
turnip-headed1898
bonehead1903
wool-witted1905
peanut-headed1906
peanut-brained1907
dilly1909
torpid-minded1909
retardate1912
nitwitted1917
meat-headed1918
mug1922
cloth-headed1925
loopy1925
nitwit1928
lame-brained1929
dead from the neck up1930
simpy1932
nail-headed1936
square-headed1936
dingbats1937
pinhead1939
dim-witted1940
pea-brained1942
clueless1943
lobotomized1943
retarded1949
pointy-headed1950
clottish1952
like a stunned mullet1953
silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954
out to lunch1955
pin-brained1958
dozy1959
eejity1964
out of one's tiny mind1965
doofus1967
twitty1967
twittish1969
twatty1975
twattish1976
blur1977
dof1979
goofus1981
dickheaded1991
dickish1991
numpty1992
cockish1996
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious
dreicha1300
alangec1330
joylessa1400
tedious1412
wearifulc1454
weary1465
laboriousa1475
tiresome?a1513
irksome1513
wearisome1530
woodena1566
irkful1570
flat1573
leaden1593
barren1600
soaked1600
unlively1608
dulla1616
irking1629
drearisome1633
drear1645
plumbous1651
fatigable1656
dreary1667
uncurious1685
unenlivened1692
blank1726
disinteresting1737
stupid1748
stagnant1749
trist?1756
vegetable1757
borish1766
uninteresting1769
unenlivening1774
oorie1787
wearying1796
subjectless1803
yawny1805
wearing1811
stuffy1813
sloomy1820
tediousome1823
arid1827
lacklustrous1834
boring1839
featureless1839
slow1840
sodden1853
ennuying1858
dusty1860
cabbagy1861
old1864
mouldy1876
yawnful1878
drab1880
dehydrated1884
interestless1886
jay1889
boresome1895
stodgy1895
stuffy1895
yawnsome1900
sludgy1901
draggy1922
blah1937
nowhere1940
drack1945
stupefactive1970
schleppy1978
wack1986
1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice III. ii. 86 The peculiar sodden and sensual cunning..seen so often in the countenances of the worst Romanist priests.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 49 All Into dull sodden life did fall.
3. Of food: Heavy, doughy; spoiled through over-boiling or imperfect baking.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > unpalatable
unsweetc1440
boisterous1483
untasty1566
untoothsome1576
twice sod1601
coarse1607
irrelishable1608
asper1626
insuave1657
untoward1662
physicala1665
asperous1670
unpalatable1682
woolly1687
inelegant1708
smoked1761
impalatable1782
brassy1789
soddena1800
metallic1800
inky1805
unsweetened1817
weedy1851
tinny1873
tangy1875
raw1881
unappetizing1884
twangy1887
stavy1888
toasty1890
soapy1892
stewy1895
gloppy1976
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > boiling or boiled > overboiled
twice sod1601
soddena1800
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > baked > underbaked
soddena1800
a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Sodden, over-boiled. North.
1862 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (ed. 2) III. ii. §5. 143 Bread prepared from such flour is sticky, heavy, and sodden.
4.
a. Saturated or soaked with water or moisture.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective]
thorough wetOE
drunk1382
drunkenc1420
uliginosec1440
dung wetc1450
drookeda1522
wet through, to the skin1526
sogginga1552
washed1557
washy1566
muck-wet1567
wringing wet1570
drenched1589
dropsy1605
ydrenched1610
sobby1611
dropsieda1616
slocken1643
uliginous1650
dabbling1661
sodded1661
sobbing1664
sobbed1693
flashy1702
saturated1728
saturate1785
livereda1796
sappy1806
laving1812
sodden1820
sopped1822
soppy1823
soaked1829
dropsical1845
soddened1845
soaking wet1847
soggya1852
sogged1860
soaking1864
sopping1866
soaken1898
astream1929
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of soaking or steeping > [adjective]
woked1409
confyte1490
infuse1502
soaking1577
steeped1599
yoted?1615
elixed1665
sodden1820
elixated1823
soaked1829
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 146 Upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless.
1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 164 Don't work the ground when it is sodden, muddy, or rendered sticky by a recent frost.
1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xvi. 137 The cold water was numbing his limbs and his sodden clothes were dragging him down.
1894 Daily News 5 June 3/5 The ground..was in such a terribly sodden condition that cricket was entirely out of the question.
b. Const. in or with. Also figurative.
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1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism i. 6 Men..with hands sodden in blood.
1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) xi. 285 Nothing can be more hurtful to a youth than to have his soul sodden with pleasure.
1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 104 Fungi abound, and the pavement is sodden with damp.
1904 Field 6 Feb. 226/2 The ground was so sodden with wet that it was quite unfit to ride over.
B. n.
† Boiled meat. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > boiled meat
soddena1400
sod1548
bouilli1664
boiled1804
trembling beef1806
New England boiled dinner1888
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 13373 (MED) Þat folk þat day fulle faire was fed wiþ soiþen & roste & wilde bred.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 73 The tane lufis soddyn, the tothir rost.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 115 I haue here in my mayll Sothen and rost.
Compounds
sodden-faced, sodden-headed, sodden-witted adjs.Also as second element in brandy-, gin-, whisky-sodden, etc.
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1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 25 You sodden headed Asse you, the most part of that law is abrogated.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. i. 44 Thou sodden witted Lord, thou hast no more braine then I haue in mine elbowes. View more context for this quotation
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxxi. 218 The sliest, sodden-fac'd creature I ever saw.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† soddenadj.2
Obsolete. rare.
Built of sods.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [adjective]
wandedc1593
brick-built1596
rock-built1596
mud-walled1607
sedgy1624
sodden1639
nogged1688
frame1760
logged1784
stucco1786
weatherboarded1794
piled1795
thick-walled1820
clapboarded1835
board-built1837
pebble-dashed1839
puncheoned1843
timber-framed1843
betimbered1847
pile-built1851
massy1855
bamboo-walled1858
portable1860
half-timber1874
stone-faced1874
Red River frame1879
ashlared1881
granolithic1881
brick-end1883
converted1888
steel frame1898
board-and-bat1902
traviated1902
steel-framed1906
prefabricated1921
prefab1937
multiwall1940
pre-engineered1955
curtain-walled1959
pre-fabbed1959
timber-frame1967
system-built1968
flat-pack1982
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > turf > [adjective]
sodden1639
sodded1652
1639 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) II. 285 Belfort (nothing like the name either in strength or beauty, it being the most miserably beggarly sodden town, or town of sods, that ever was made in an afternoon of loam and sticks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
soddenv.
/ˈsɒd(ə)n/ 1.
a. transitive. To make sodden; to soak in, or saturate with, water.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > make very wet [verb (transitive)]
drenchc1000
washc1275
drowna1300
drunkena1300
drunka1382
bewetc1400
bedrenchc1450
bucka1513
sowp1513
drooka1522
sousea1542
soaken1577
overdrown1579
soss1587
embay1590
steep1590
overdrencha1592
embathe1593
indrench1593
imbue1594
douse1606
besob1609
bucket1621
sob1625
dash1670
sop1682
saturate1696
float1729
water1754
sodden1812
douche1864
poach1881
tosh1883
sod1895
1812 Ann. Reg., Chron. 502 The ground becomes compressed and soddened (to use an antiquated term) by the winter rains.
1846 C. Dickens Pictures from Italy 147 Your pony soddening his girths in water.
1878 Daily News 12 June 5 The rains have soddened the earth.
b. To render (the faculties) dull or stupid; to deprive of vivacity or freshness.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > deaden or dull the emotions
stupefy?a1425
dullc1440
benumbc1485
slumber?1533
extinguish1540
extinct1542
numb1561
damp1570
hebetate1574
daunt1581
frostbite1593
hebete1597
blunt1600
unedgea1625
engross1626
astonish1635
consopite1647
bate1649
opiate1650
blura1653
hebescate1657
torpefy1808
dozena1810
dullify1838
hebetize1845
chloroform1849
narcotize1852
sodden1863
vastate1892
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xvii. 431 His sensuality does not sodden and brutify his faculties, but it quickens their temper and edge.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Dec. 4/2 His soul has been deadened and soddened by ages of exclusive devotion to the question of bread and cider.
2. intransitive.
a. To become soaked or saturated with water or moisture; to grow soft or rotten in this way.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > by damp
to take wet1513
to moisture away1519
reta1642
to fog off1802
sodden1821
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > be or become very wet [verb (intransitive)] > become very wet
soga1552
sod1642
sodden1821
water-soak1899
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) ii. ii. 63 The block may soak their gore; Their heads may sodden in the sun.
a1861 T. Woolner Tolling Bell in My Beautiful Lady lviii I wandered wearily..Through swamps that soddened under stagnant air.
b. Of a liquid: To soak into something.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of soaking or steeping > be soaked or steeped [verb (intransitive)] > soak in
sop1844
sog1854
sodden1890
1890 E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious Insects (ed. 2) iii. 345 Dressing..of some kind which will not sodden into the tree in the heat of the sun.
Derivatives
ˈsoddened adj.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective]
thorough wetOE
drunk1382
drunkenc1420
uliginosec1440
dung wetc1450
drookeda1522
wet through, to the skin1526
sogginga1552
washed1557
washy1566
muck-wet1567
wringing wet1570
drenched1589
dropsy1605
ydrenched1610
sobby1611
dropsieda1616
slocken1643
uliginous1650
dabbling1661
sodded1661
sobbing1664
sobbed1693
flashy1702
saturated1728
saturate1785
livereda1796
sappy1806
laving1812
sodden1820
sopped1822
soppy1823
soaked1829
dropsical1845
soddened1845
soaking wet1847
soggya1852
sogged1860
soaking1864
sopping1866
soaken1898
astream1929
1845 H. B. Hirst Poems 18 We..laid them in the soddened ground.
1883 Knowledge 3 Aug. 68/1 Soddened fruit enveloped in heavy indigestible pudding paste.
ˈsoddening n. and adj.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > want of or incapacity for emotion > causing
hebetation1623
soddening1852
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [noun] > action or process
soak1598
drenching1626
sobbing1664
saturation1732
flooding1799
swamping1802
drench1807
water-soaking1849
soddening1852
soakage1867
1852 J. Wiggins Pract. Embanking Lands 96 This soddening, or stagnation of the soil in a watery state.
1857 T. Moore Handbk. Brit. Ferns (ed. 3) 28 A soddening—continued wetness, as distinguished from mere dampness, of the soil.
1890 Huxley in Times 1 Dec. 13/3 The prostitution of the mind, the soddening of the conscience.
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