| 单词 | the sod |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe (old) sod b. the (old) sod, one's native district or country; spec., Ireland. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Ireland > [noun] Western Isle1557 shamrockshire1689 Teagueland1689 Wolfland1692 Green Island1797 Green Isle1812 the (old) sod1812 Paddyland1828 (is)land of saints1888 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > homeland or native land kithc888 etheleOE erdOE homeOE motherOE fatherlandc1275 countrya1300 soila1400 countrywarda1425 motherland1565 mother country1567 patrie1581 native1604 homelanda1627 home country1707 patria1707 old country1751 the (old) sod1812 home birth1846 Vaterland1852 old sod1863 motherland1895 Bongo Bongo1911 sireland1922 1812–13 P. Egan Boxiana I. 315 O'Donnel..was a native of Ireland, who left the sod at a very early period of his life. 1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. (MS.) He does not like to leave the old sod after having lived there so long. 1891 E. Roper By Track & Trail ii. 25 And did ye see ould Ireland lately?.. And how's the poor ould sod? 1892 W. G. Lyttle Life in Ballycuddy 12 (E.D.D.) A'll niver lee the auld sod again. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 19 To say too us to be every tim, nick and larry of us, sons of the sod. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 194 Dry yanks will visit old sod. a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) ii. ii. 80 Then before his father can react to this insult to the Old Sod, he adds dryly, [etc.]. 1955 J. P. Donleavy Ginger Man v. 35 I'll give you the jug to remember me when I'm gone from the ould sod, sacked in with some lovely French doll. < as lemmas |
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