Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) a wet damper, i.e. a flour and water pancake.

1900–10		Stephens & O’Brien Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 147: SOD: a badly cooked damper.
1941		Baker Popular Dict. Aus. Sl.
1949		R. Park Poor Man’s Orange 240: ‘Strike!’ gasped Hughie. ‘It’s a sod!’ And so it was. The water had got into it.
1957		R.S. Porteous Brigalow 206: His dampers were leaden sods.
1975		X. Herbert Poor Fellow My Country 838: I want to cook our own damper, too . . . don’t want one of their sods.