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means A chunk of earth with its grass and roots still attached — or, in British slang, a mildly rude word for an unpleasant person or situation.

from From Middle English/Dutch 'sode,' meaning a piece of turf, related to German 'Sode' — likely connected to the idea of something 'sodden' or soaked, since turf holds water like a sponge. The insult sense ('poor sod,' 'silly sod') emerged in 19th-century British slang as a euphemistic shortening of 'sodomite,' scrubbed of its original sting through sheer overuse until it became a term almost fond in its mildness.