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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(US, Canada, informal) A house constructed from blocks of sod, once common in the prairies of the United States and Canada..
The soddie could be a freestanding structure made of slabs of sod cut by a plow, or it could be a dugout partially bored into the side of a hill or into the ground.
I learned how to make a soddie into a home.
“Living in a soddy!” exclaimed Marie. “I didn't know there was anyone alive today who lived in a soddy. In our part of Nebraska, soddies went out of existence around the beginning of the 1900s.” “Oh, we had soddies for a long time after that,” said Robert. “This area was too poor to afford lumber for housing. Quite a few of us lived in soddies when we were kids.”
It is better now that we do not live in the soddie, but to Mor it does not seem better.
Use soddie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Soddie means (US, Canada, informal) A house constructed from blocks of sod, once common in the prairies of the United States and Canada..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The soddie could be a freestanding structure made of slabs of sod cut by a plow, or it could be a dugout partially bored into the side of a hill or into the ground.
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