Meaning & use
Soddy
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A small house built of blocks of sod, historically used by settlers on the treeless American prairies.
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The pioneer family lived in a soddy for their first winter on the plains.
Few soddies survive today, since the packed earth walls eventually crumbled.
A note on using this word
Also spelled 'soddie,' this term recalls a practical response to the lack of timber on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century.
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