Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Plod

Plod

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Plodded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Plodding
.]
[Gf. Gael.
plod
a clod, a pool; also, to strike or pelt with a clod or clods.]
1.
To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.
Shak.
2.
To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
Plodding schoolmen.”
Drayton.

Plod

,
Verb.
T.
To walk on slowly or heavily.
The ploughman homeward
plods
his weary way.
Gray.

Webster 1828 Edition


Plod

PLOD

,
Verb.
I.
To travel or work slowly or with steady laborious diligence.
A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end, than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.
Some stupid, plodding, money-loving wight.
1.
To study heavily with steady diligence.
2.
To toil; to drudge.

Definition 2024


plod

plod

See also: płod and płód

English

Noun

plod (uncountable)

  1. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
    We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.

Verb

plod (third-person singular simple present plods, present participle plodding, simple past and past participle plodded)

  1. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
    • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island Part One, Chapter 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;
  2. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
  3. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
    • Drayton
      plodding schoolmen
Derived terms
  • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:plod.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (mire).

Noun

plod (plural plods)

  1. (obsolete) A puddle.

Etymology 3

From PC Plod.

Noun

plod (usually uncountable, plural plods)

  1. (Britain, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
  2. (Britain, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
Synonyms
  • (the police): see Wikisaurus:police
  • (police officer): see Wikisaurus:police officer
Translations

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plodъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

plod m

  1. fruit
  2. fetus

Declension

Derived terms

See also


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plodъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plôːd/

Noun

plȏd m (Cyrillic spelling пло̑д)

  1. fruit (part of plant)

Declension


Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plodъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplóːt/
  • Tonal orthography: plọ̑d

Noun

plód m inan (genitive plodú or plóda, nominative plural plodôvi or plódi)

  1. fruit (part of plant)

Declension