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soddy
1[sod-ee]
adjective
of or relating to sod.
consisting of sod.
noun
plural
soddiesWestern U.S.Also soddie. sod house.
Soddy
2[sod-ee]
noun
Frederick, 1877–1956, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1921.
Soddy
/ ˈɒɪ /
noun
Frederick. 1877–1956, English chemist, whose work on radioactive disintegration led to the discovery of isotopes: Nobel prize for chemistry 1921
Soddy
British chemist who was a pioneer in the study of radioactivity. With Ernest Rutherford, he explained the atomic disintegration of radioactive elements. Soddy also coined the word isotope to describe elements that were chemically identical but had different atomic weights. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1921.
Example Sentences
From this spot, you could spy Jim’s soddy—at least the roof, from which grew a cherry tree that Jim swore bore the best pie cherries in all of Montana.
One settler burned to death inside his soddy.
Carver moved in a cookstove, bed, cupboard, table and chairs and washtub and flat iron into the 14-square-foot soddy.
That was one of the cold winters which usually follow a wet summer, and I nearly froze in my little old soddy, before the warm spring days set in.
It required no high-priced, skilled labor to build a "soddy," and properly built they were quite comfortable.
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