trudge

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How often have I said as I gathered up my stiff limbs and damp belongings in the mist of the morning, "And the poor old tramp lifts himself and takes to the road once more, trudge, trudge, trudge--a weary life The mansion of my soul has been housing phantoms all the night.

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  1. intransitive verb To walk in a laborious, heavy-footed way; plod.
  2. noun A long, tedious walk.

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  • More entertaining, he supposed, had been watching the dog wade, trudge, and occasionally leap through the waist-high snow. —  BloodBrothers
  • Her clothing had been ragged and sweat-soaked after the trudge, but now it was neat and clean. —  Golem in the Gears
  • With a disappointed trudge, Christopher joined the throng of children. —  Asimov'sSF,March2008
  • —Nothing to interest but the same weary trudge: our food so scarce that we can only give a handful or half a pound of grain to each person per day. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I
  • This is going to sound very ignorant but onward I trudge, I believe you stated that you are from Spain, is English your 2nd language. —  McCook Daily Gazette Headlines
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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Formerly also tridge; origin obscure. Connection with tread, unless by confusion with drudge, is impossible. Skeat suggests as the prob. source Swedish dial. truga = Norwegian truga = Icelandic thrūga, snow-shoe.
  2. from trudge, v.
  3. Abbr. of trudgeman.
 

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