different between sod vs clay
sod
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
- Homophone: sawed (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English sod, sodde [attested since mid-15th c.], from Middle Dutch zoden (“turf”) or Middle Low German sôde, soede (“turf”), both related to Dutch zode (“turf”), German Sode (“turf”), Old Frisian s?tha (“sod”), all being of uncertain ultimate origin.
Noun
sod (uncountable)
- (uncountable) That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
- 1746', William Collins, Ode written in the year 1746
- 1746', William Collins, Ode written in the year 1746
- Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.
Related terms
- soddie
- sodless
Translations
Verb
sod (third-person singular simple present sods, present participle sodding, simple past and past participle sodded)
- To cover with sod.
Translations
Etymology 2
From sodomize or sodomite, by shortening.
Noun
sod (plural sods)
- (Britain, vulgar) Sodomite; bugger.
- (Britain, slang, mildly pejorative, formerly considered vulgar) A person, usually male; often qualified with an adjective.
- (Britain, mildly vulgar) Any trifling amount, a bugger, a damn, a jot.
Derived terms
- Sod’s law
Translations
Interjection
sod
- (Britain, vulgar) expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.
Verb
sod (third-person singular simple present sods, present participle sodding, simple past and past participle sodded)
- (transitive, Britain, slang, vulgar) Bugger; sodomize.
- (transitive, Britain, slang, vulgar) Damn, curse, confound.
- Sod him!, Sod it!, Sod that bastard!
Derived terms
- sod off
Etymology 3
From the Old English plural past tense, or a back-formation from the past participle sodden.
Verb
sod
- (obsolete) simple past tense of seethe
Adjective
sod (comparative more sod, superlative most sod)
- (obsolete) Boiled.
- , New York, 2001, p.223:
- , New York, 2001, p.223:
- (Australia, of bread) Sodden; incompletely risen.
Noun
sod (plural sods)
- (Australia, colloquial) A damper (bread) which has failed to rise, remaining a flat lump.
Etymology 4
Noun
sod (plural sods)
- The rock dove.
Anagrams
- DOS, DSO, DoS, OD's, ODS, OSD, SDO, do's, dos, dso, ods
Breton
Noun
sod m
- imbecile
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse sót (“soot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /so?d/, [soð?]
- Rhymes: -oð
Noun
sod c (singular definite soden, not used in plural form)
- soot
Verb
sod
- imperative of sode
Maltese
Etymology
From Italian sodo, from Latin solidus. Doublet of solidu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??t/
Adjective
sod (feminine singular soda, plural sodi)
- firm; steadfast
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse soð. Doublet of sodd.
Noun
sod n (definite singular sodet, indefinite plural sod, definite plural soda)
- boiling, bubbling
- broth
- meat soup
References
- “sod” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *s?d?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /só?t/
Noun
s??d m inan
- barrel
Inflection
Volapük
Noun
sod (nominative plural sods)
- sauce
Declension
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clay
English
Etymology
From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English cl?? (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to glue, paste, stick together”).
Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek ???? (glía), Latin gl?ten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Ukrainian ???? (glej, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kl?, IPA(key): /kle?/, [kl?e?]
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
clay (usually uncountable, plural clays)
- A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
- Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].
- An earth material with ductile qualities.
- (tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
- (biblical) The material of the human body.
- 1611, Old Testament, King James Version, Job 10:8-9:
- Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay.
- 1611, Old Testament, King James Version, Isaiah 64:8:
- But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand.
- 1611, Old Testament, King James Version, Job 10:8-9:
- (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
- (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
- We went shooting clays at the weekend.
- (informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims
- Danzig is rightfully German clay.
Antonyms
- (material of the human body): soul, spirit
Hyponyms
- kaolin, kaoline
- ball clay
- fire clay
- potter's clay
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- alluvium
Verb
clay (third-person singular simple present clays, present participle claying, simple past and past participle clayed)
- (transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
- (transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies,
- They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.
- 1809, Jonathan Williams, On the Process of Claying Sugar, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 6.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies,
References
- Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter volume 11, Number 1.[2] (etymology)
- “clay” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
- Clay, New Webster Dictionary of English Language, 1980 edition.
Anagrams
- Lacy, acyl, lacy
Middle English
Noun
clay
- Alternative form of cley (“clay”)
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