Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To walk in a laborious, heavy-footed way; plod.
- n. A long, tedious walk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make one's way on foot; walk; travel on foot; especially, to travel wearily or laboriously on foot.
- n. A weary or laborious walk or tramp.
- n. An interpreter.
Wiktionary
- n. A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.
- v. intransitive To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
- v. transitive To trudge along or over a route etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.
WordNet 3.0
- v. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- n. a long difficult walk
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I am here, I have trudged — do you like the word trudge?”
“I kind of trudge through the evil stuff that I don't like doing, like the sanding and the this, that, and the other thing out of habit.”
“It also captured that late night urgency, buzzing from pub to club to cafe, those Important Conversations like a campfire on an empty beach, weaving dreams of the future until the streetlights gave way to the dawn, and then the final trudge home (or sprint home fueled on booze and kebab).”
“And "we the people" -- overtaxed, over-policed, overburdened by big government, underrepresented by those who should speak for us and blissfully ignorant of the prison walls closing in on us -- will continue to trudge along a path of misery.”
“She would trudge home after lessons discouraged and frustrated.”
“We had to trudge back down, too -- luckily on what was almost! a road.”
The Huffington Post: Dave Astor: Frustration-Filled Vacations Can Be Fun (in Retrospect)
“The biographical half of his book is hard-going, a trudge through lumpen text that often lacks cohesion.”
“But the 16 games he has played since returning to the lineup from post-concussion symptoms have been a trudge back to his place among the team's top four defensemen.”
The Wall Street Journal: Not All Is Perfect With the Rangers
“Once upon a time, pilgrims would trudge halfway around the world just to glimpse one of these objects.”
“There are even a couple of hills to trudge up -- that is, if I don't get nailed by a truck in the first 15 seconds of my hike.”
The Huffington Post: Peter Mandel: Hiking the Great American Strip Mall
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trudge’.
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SMILE and other emotive verbs
Single verbs that describe expression or emotional reaction. "He __ed" (smiled/gulped/scoffed...)
smile, beam, sneer, scoff, giggle, laugh, snigger, scowl, grin, leer, wince, grimace and 97 more...
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
related:
http://www.wordnik.co...creep, crawl, plod, slouch, idle, lumber, tiptoe, bend, amble, mosey, saunter, loiter and 117 more...
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perrch
perch, fallow, gale, sparrows, dreary, crust, tramped, glare, plod, trudge, tramp, tumble and 12 more...
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vocab 2
accrue, lenity, pellucid, smitten, implore, scrupulous, recalcitrant, melancholy, trudge, reverie, convivial, corrigible and 19 more...
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Phonestheme: TR-, the Long Walk
Grateful credit to http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
trudge, trot, trek, tread, tramp, trample, track, trip, tromp, traverse, traipse, travail
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I am : moving
Words to describe gait and movement.
walk, run, trot, jog, canter, gallop, skip, crawl, slink, slither, amble, trundle and 69 more...
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onomatopoeic
warble, quibble, quirk, drudgery, chortle, snicker, galumph, thwart, schlock, whimsy, garble, miffed and 25 more...
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October Words-11849
During the month of October, post at least 10 new words to this list. Make sure you cite where you read the word (book/author/pg) and quote the context/sentence where you found it. If someone has a...
desalination, Girn, incongruous, irreparably, pneumatic, metastatic, languorous, menagerie, mottled, valise, moot, deferential and 28 more...
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Vocab list 6
beseech, consternation, delectable, garland, gratify, haughty, impetuous, lavish, pluck, ponder, privilege, prostrate and 6 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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dharma66's list
words that pique my interest either by meaning, pronunciation, or spelling, and words that otherwise tickle my fancy!!
pique, elusive, serendipity, nefarious, redundant, pseudoscientific, obsequious, flack, quandary, impervious, perchance, translucent and 168 more...
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words I love to use
kerfuffle, smarmy, sketchy, grim, wheedle, piffle, prattle, loggerheads, snarky, piddling, nix, caterwaul and 90 more...
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wunderkammer's Words
smarmy, bubkes, elucidate, togs, aeolian, carp, kibosh, bosky, ramshackle, mange, harpy, effervesce and 163 more...
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And another
retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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katiad's Words
exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
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Mal
slush, slosh, trudge, straggle, stagger, boot, tooth, beldam
Tweets
Looking for tweets for trudge.
dharma66 *reminds me of Dan Aykroyd in 'The Gift of Winter' 1974
"trudge, trudge, trudge..." Aug 10, 2011
racquelcline I was reading a football article online.. " However, I serve even a higher calling here at RSS so I will trudge through and Protect the Shield with everything you need to know from the National" Nov 1, 2010
Prolagus "Oh, yes," said the receptionist, finding the specs. "It happens we've got a broker over there at the moment. Aren't we lucky. Can you pop round?"
"I'm on foot," said Winnie. "I don't pop anywhere, but I trudge pretty efficiently. Have him wait."
(From Lost, by Gregory Maguire) Feb 19, 2009
bilby This word sounds like hard work. Nov 30, 2008