sodding adj.
a derog. intensifier.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | letter 3 July in Coll. Letters (1962) I 134: Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines [...] the miserable sodding rotters [...] that make up England today. | |
| Mint (1955) 101: Our mild sergeant [...] adjured us [...] for the love of Mike to stop our sodding row. | |
| Living (1978) 223: ‘It [i.e. Australia] am a grand country,’ ’e said to me, ‘this [i.e. England] be a poor sodding place for a poor bleeder’, ’e said. ‘I’m for goin’.’. | |
| (con. 1918) German Prisoner 32: ‘I wish to Christ this soddin’ fog would lift’. | |
| letter 16 Apr. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 11: This letter will be difficult to write on several counts. (a) this sodding vile pen. | |
| ‘The Disgrace of Jim Scarfedale’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 128: It would have made my heart bleed if I hadn’t guessed he’d been such a sodding fool. | |
| letter 1 Nov. in Leader (2000) 689: Your letter announcing her hospitalisation had no sodding zip-code on the address. | |
| Bar Mitzvah Boy Scene 66: What the hell do you mean you went for a haircut! Is that why you left? To go for a sodding haircut? | |
| Union Street 35: She needed a woman to talk to, but in all this sodding street there wasn’t one of ’em you could trust. | |
| ‘Prufrock Scoused’ Catching Up with Hist. 21: Its as soddin borin as someone avin der appendicks out. | |
| ‘Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyght’ in Indep. Weekend Rev. 26 Dec. 1: Soone cayme Autumne and thenne soddynge Wynter agayne. | |
| Beyond Black 37: My boyfriend that was killed in a pile-up on the sodding M25. |