sodcast
English
Etymology
From sod (“contemptible person”) + -cast, from broadcast. Possibly influenced by podcast.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɒd.kɑːst/, /ˈsɒd.kæst/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: (UK) -ɒdkɑːst, (UK) -ɒdkæst
Verb
sodcast (third-person singular simple present sodcasts, present participle sodcasting, simple past and past participle sodcasted or sodcast)
- (UK, slang, derogatory, neologism) To play music on a mobile phone or other portable device in public, without regard for those around.
- 2010 January 20, Simon Reynolds, “Simon Reynolds' Notes on the noughties: Grime and dubstep – a noise you could believe in”, in The Guardian:
- Unlike American gangsta rap, which was well-produced and cinematic and had an element of exotic remoteness, grime was always going to remind non-converts, people from outside the scene itself, of hooded youths on the top deck of buses sodcasting tinny music at top volume out of their mobiles.
- 2014 September 22, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “Six steps to perfect mobile phone etiquette”, in The Guardian:
- Thou shalt not sodcast […] There’s a clear positive correlation between how awful music is and the likelihood of it being sodcasted - chewed-and-spat from a phone speaker; landing on your eardrums with all the clarity and soothing of mud splatter.
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