Home › Words › S › soddiesoddiesoddie means A house constructed from blocks of sod, once common in the prairies of the United States and Canada.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, soddie ranks #11,665 of 42,789 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom sod + -ie.nounA house constructed from blocks of sod, once common in the prairies of the United States and Canada.e.g.“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.” — 1988, Glenda Riley, The Female Frontier, page 87:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).