sod

Michael described himself as a "very awkward, slightly porky, very strange-looking bloke" who walked into his first day of school with a mop of curly hair and wearing "sodding great big window-frame glasses."

Is there really anything to be gained from being served yet another reminder every single time we open a sodding email?

Midway through the novel, Lennon tells Anton he’s his father’s “sodding Cyrano de Bergerac.”

“This path must be laid out like a sodding maze,” said Alice.

Despite the rain he jolted around the grounds to direct planting and sodding and every morning at dawn attended Burnham’s mandatory muster of key men.