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

• plodder
• plodding

• 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

• oplodí n

See also

• embryo
• zárodek

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