different between sodden vs cold

English

Etymology

From Middle English sodden, soden, from Old English soden, ?esoden, from Proto-Germanic *sudanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *seuþan? (“to seethe; boil”). Cognate with West Frisian sean, Dutch gezoden, German Low German saden, söddt,German gesotten, Swedish sjuden, Icelandic soðinn. More at seethe.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?.d?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?.d?n/

Adjective

sodden (comparative more sodden, superlative most sodden)

1. Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
   • 1810, James Millar (editor), Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume XII, 4th Edition, page 702,

     It is found, indeed, that meat, roa?ted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ?odden than when coal is employed for that purpo?e.

   • 1895 February, James Rodway, Nature's Triumph, The Popular Science Monthly, page 460,

     The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden.

   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]

     A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
2. (archaic) Boiled.
   • c. 1569, Hugh Gough (translator), The Ofspring of the House of Ottomanno and Officers Pertaining to the Greate Turkes Court by Bartolomej Georgijevi?, London, Thomas Marshe, “The diuersities of their drinke,”^[2]

     The thirde [drynke] is of that kinde of hony named Pechmes, whiche is made of newe wine sodden, vntill the third parte be boyled awaye […]

   • 1596, Richard Johnson, The Most Famous History of the Seaven Champions of Christendome, London: Cuthbert Burbie, Chapter 14, p. 131,^[3]

     […] howe Almidor the blacke King of Moroco was sodden to death in a cauldrone of boyling leade and brimstone.
3. (figuratively) Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, line 560,^[4]

     You whoreson sodden headed sheepes-face […]

   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act II, Scene 1,^[5]

     […] thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no

     more brain than I have in mine elbows […]

   • 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, 1899, Reprint Edition, page 60,

     With this profession of faith, the doctor, who was an old jail-bird, and was more sodden than usual, and had the additional and unusual stimulus of money in his pocket, returned to his associate and chum in hoarseness, puffiness, redfacedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy.

   • 2010, Peter Hitchens, The Cameron Delusion, page 79,

     I would have done too, but alcohol makes me so ill that I couldn't (I mention this to make it clear that I don't claim any moral superiority over my more sodden colleagues).

4. (figuratively) Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance)
   • 1613, Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: Walter Burre, Act 5, Scene 1,^[6]

     Remoue and march, soft and faire Gentlemen, soft and faire: double your files, as you were, faces about. Now you with the sodden face, keepe in there […]

   • 1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, London: T.N. Longman and L.B. Seeley, Letter 49, pp. 444-445,^[7]

     Of the music-girls, many are pretty featured, but carry in every lineament, the signs of their lamentable vocation: sodden complexions, feebly glossed over by artificial daubings of the worst colour […]

Synonyms

• (soaked): dopping, waterlogged; see also Thesaurus:wet
• (boiled):
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (dull expression): blank, stonefaced

Derived terms

• soddenly
• soddenness
• tea-sodden football hooligan

Translations

Verb

sodden (third-person singular simple present soddens, present participle soddening, simple past and past participle soddened)

1. (transitive) To drench, soak or saturate.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     But as I lay asleep the top had been pressed off the box, and the tinder got loose in my pocket; and though I picked the tinder out easily enough, and got it in the box again, yet the salt damps of the place had soddened it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint.

2. (intransitive) To become soaked.

Translations

Anagrams

• Seddon

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??ld/, /k??ld/
• (General American) enPR: k?ld, IPA^(key): /ko?ld/
• Homophone: coaled
• Rhymes: -??ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English cold, from Old English, specifically Anglian cald. The West Saxon form, ?eald (“cold”), survived as early Middle English cheald, cheld, or chald. Both descended from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, a participle form of *kalan? (“to be cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

Adjective

cold (comparative colder, superlative coldest)

1. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
2. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.

3. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.

4. Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
   • 2011 April 23, Doctor Who, series 6, episode 1, The Impossible Astronaut:

     RIVER SONG (upon seeing the still-living DOCTOR, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death): This is cold. Even by your standards, this is cold.
5. Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.

6. Completely unprepared; without introduction.

7. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.

8. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.

9. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.
10. (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.

    • cold plants

11. (obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
    • 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter

      What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!

    • The jest grows cold […] when it comes on in a second scene.

12. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.

13. (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
14. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.

15. (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
16. (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
17. (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless

    I can't believe she said that...that was cold!

18. (informal) Not radioactive. [from the 20^thc.]
    • 1953, Philip K. Dick, "That's right," Jackson said. "The Old Man will be pleased to welcome you." There was eagerness in his reedy voice. "What do you say? We'll take care of you. Feed you, bring you cold plants and animals. For a week maybe?"”, in Planet for Transients, a short story published in Fantastic Universe magazine: Oct-Nov 1953. Page 64

Synonyms

• (of a thing, having a low temperature): chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool
• (of the weather): (UK, slang) brass monkeys, nippy, parky, taters
• (of a person or animal):
• (unfriendly): aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming
• (unprepared): unprepared, unready
• See also Thesaurus:cold

Antonyms

• (having a low temperature): baking, boiling, heated, hot, scorching, searing, torrid, warm
• (of the weather): hot (See the corresponding synonyms of hot.)
• (of a person or animal): hot (See the corresponding synonyms of hot.)
• (unfriendly): amiable, friendly, welcoming
• (unprepared): prepared, primed, ready
• (not radioactive): hot, radioactive

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English cold, colde, from Old English cald, ?eald (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Germanic *kald? (“coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

Noun

cold (plural colds)

1. A condition of low temperature.

2. (with 'the', figuratively) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.

   The former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him.

3. (medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

4. (slang) rheum, sleepy dust
   • 1994, Notorious B.I.G., Warning

     Who the fuck is this, pagin' me at 5:46 in the morning? / crack of dawn and now I'm yawnin' / wipe the cold out my eye, see who's this pagin' me and why

   • 1996, Ghostface Killah, All That I Got Is You

     But I remember this, moms would lick her finger tips / to wipe the cold out my eye before school with her spit

Synonyms

• (low temperature): coldness
• (illness): common cold, coryza, head cold, pose

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

• freeze, frost

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English colde, from Old English calde, ?ealde (“coldly”), from the adjective (see above).

Adverb

cold (comparative more cold, superlative most cold)

1. While at low temperature.

   The steel was processed cold.

2. Without preparation.

   The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.

3. With finality.

   I knocked him out cold.

4. (slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
   • 1986, Run-DMC, Peter Piper.

     Now Little Bo Peep cold lost her sheep / And Rip van Winkle fell the hell asleep

References

See also

• cool
• fresh
• lukewarm
• tepid

Anagrams

• clod, loc'd

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cald, cheld, cheald, chald

Etymology

From Old English cald, an Anglian form of ?eald.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??ld/
• (from the form ?eald) IPA^(key): /t???ld/

Adjective

cold (plural and weak singular colde, comparative colder, superlative *coldest)

1. (temperature) cold, cool
2. (weather) cold, cool
3. (locations) having a tendency to be cold
4. cold-feeling, cold when touched, cooled, chilly
5. lifeless, having the pallor of death
6. cold-hearted, indifferent, insensitive
7. distressed, sorrowful, worried
8. (alchemy, medicine) Considered to be alchemically cold

Descendants

• English: cold
• Scots: cald, cauld
• Yola: cole, khoal

References

• “c?ld, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-26.

Noun

cold

1. cold, coldness
2. The feeling of coldness or chill
3. Lack of feelings or emotion
4. (alchemy, medicine) Alchemical coldness

Descendants

• English: cold
• Scots: cald, cauld

References

• “c?ld, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-26.