plod

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  1. intransitive verb To move or walk heavily or laboriously; trudge: "donkeys that plodded wearily in a circle round a gin” (D.H. Lawrence).
  2. intransitive verb To work or act perseveringly or monotonously; drudge: plodding through a mountain of paperwork.
  3. transitive verb To trudge along or over.
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  • Incidentally, be prepared for a plod of several hours. —  dummy 3
  • She used to be in the local plod, but saw the light of promotion in the galaxy and jumped ship. —  process 10
  • If they turned out to be plod, that was my hard luck. —  process 10
  • She displayed a card to the plod, slipped it back into a handbag made from the skin of the last dying reptilian representative of its conserved species. —  process 10
  • Aunties is the nickname for the plod's meddlers in the antiques trade. —  process 10
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Perhaps imitative.

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  1. from Middle English plod, a puddle; cf. Danish pladder, mire; prob. from Irish Gaelic plod, a pool (also a clod), plodan, a small pool (also a small clod), plodach, a puddle.
  2. from Middle English *plodden (found only in deriv. plodder); prob. orig. splash through water and mud; from plod, n. Cf. plodge, and plout, plouter, plotter, plowder, of like sense.
 

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