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soddy † West, Slang 
1 n. a rude dwelling consisting of an excavation, often in the bank of a coulee, etc., roofed with sods.
See also: sod house (def. 2)
- 1958 . . . he sold out his quarter section and his "soddy," a half-buried hovel made of tough prairie sod and roofed with poplar poles and more sod.
- 1958 A soddy that poked its low brow no higher than the tailings of a gopher's burrow would have suited me better.
- 1966 It wasn't much of an abode, but it was better than some of the soddies, further south, where pioneers had dug a hole in the ground and covered it over with sods and earth.
2 n. a rude dwelling having walls of sods and a roof either of sods supported by wooden rafters or, sometimes, canvas.
See also: sod shack
- 1965 The true soddy had four sod walls. The building material came from a twelve- or fourteen-inch furrow ploughed from a dried-up slough bottom.
- 1958 . . . he sold out his quarter section and his "soddy," a half-buried hovel made of tough prairie sod and roofed with poplar poles and more sod.