noun Chiefly British Slang: Vulgar. a chap; fellow; guy: You almost feel sorry for the poor sod. an inconsequential, annoying, or unpleasant person. Older Use.
Then, is calling someone a sod offensive?
(Britain, slang, mildly pejorative, formerly considered vulgar) A person, usually male; often qualified with an adjective. You mean old sod!
Also question is, what does silly sod mean?
What is another word for sod?
In this page you can discover 27 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sod, like: turf, clod, grassplot, sward, pasture, meadow, lawn, grassland, mead, prairie and pasturage.
Why do they call it sod?
sod (n. 1) “turf, slice of earth with grass on it,” mid-15c., apparently from Middle Dutch sode “turf,” or Middle Low German sode, both related to Old Frisian satha “sod,” all of uncertain origin. Perhaps the notion is water saturation and the group is related to sog.