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plod
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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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”).
Noun
plod (uncountable)
- A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
- We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.
- 2025 February 23, Lisa Haseldine, “Whatever happens next, Merkelism is finished”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 23 February 2025:
- Germany can’t afford to stick to the stately plod into decline that Merkel initiated any longer. Merz will have to act fast, and break things to pull the country out of the quagmire it finds itself in.
Verb
plod (third-person singular simple present plods, present participle plodding, simple past and past participle plodded)
- (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 50”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 1, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 1:
- I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;
- (transitive) To trudge over or through.
- 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, page 127:
- Quest[ion]. Where was Ioseph?
Answ[er]. It may be, he was playing the Carpenter abrode for all their three livings, but sure it is, he was not idlely plodding the streetes, much lesse tipling in the Taverne with our idle swingers.
- 1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451,
- […] Speed thou to Lombard-street,
- Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet,
- 'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, London: The Richards Press, XLVI, pp. 69-70:
- Break no rosemary, bright with rime
And sparkling to the cruel clime;
Nor plod the winter land to look
For willows in the icy brook
To cast them leafless round him […]
- (intransitive) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
- On Sundays I keep plodding along at my job.
- 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,
- Poore plodding schoolemen, they are farre too low,
- which by probations, rules and axiom’s goe,
- He must be still familiar with the skyes,
- which notes the reuolutions of thine eyes;
- (transitive) To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
Derived terms
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:plod.
Translations
to walk slowly
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Etymology 2
From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).
Noun
plod (plural plods)
Etymology 3
From PC Plod.
Noun
plod (usually uncountable, plural plods)
- (UK, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
- (UK, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
Synonyms
- (the police): See Thesaurus:police
- (police officer): See Thesaurus:police officer
Derived terms
Translations
the police
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Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech plod, from Proto-Slavic *plodъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
plod m inan (diminutive plůdek)
Declension
Declension of plod (hard masculine inanimate)
Derived terms
- oplodí n
See also
Further reading
- “plod”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “plod”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “plod”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic плодъ (plodŭ), from Proto-Slavic *plodъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
plod n (plural plozi)
- (derogatory) small child
- (colloquial) fetus
Declension
Further reading
- “plod”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plodъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
plȏd m inan (Cyrillic spelling пло̑д)
- fruit (part of plant)
Declension
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Slovene
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plodъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
plọ̑d m inan
- fruit (seed-bearing part of plant)
- fetus after the third month of gestation
- Synonym: fetus
- (literary) result, outcome
- (literary) achievement
- (literary, rare) consequence
- (obsolete) tribe[→Pleteršnik, 2014]
- Synonym: pleme
Usage notes
Unlike sad, plod is used more when the seeds and reproducibility are stressed, rather than the edibility of the fruit.
Declension
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “plod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
- “plod”, in Termania, Amebis
- See also the general references
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