plod.
A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
Meaning & usage
A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”).
To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
To trudge over or through.
To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”).
A puddle.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).
the police, police officers
a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
Where this word comes from
From PC Plod.
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