plod
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑːd
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /plɒd/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒd
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plod (“a puddle”). Compare Dutch plodden, Dutch plodderen and Danish pladder (“mire”).
Noun
plod (uncountable)
Verb
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- (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 50,[1]
- The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
- Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
- 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;
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 50,[1]
- (transitive) To trudge over or through.
- 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, p. 127,[2]
- Quest[ion]. Where was Ioseph?
- Answ[er]. It may be, he was playing the Carpenter abrode for all their three livings, but sure it is, he was not idlely plodding the streetes, much lesse tipling in the Taverne with our idle swingers.
- 1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451,[3]
- […] Speed thou to Lombard-street,
- Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet,
- 'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, London: The Richards Press, XLVI, pp. 69-70,[4]
- Break no rosemary, bright with rime
- And sparkling to the cruel clime;
- Nor plod the winter land to look
- For willows in the icy brook
- To cast them leafless round him […]
- 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, p. 127,[2]
- To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
- 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,[5]
- Poore plodding schoolemen, they are farre too low,
- which by probations, rules and axiom’s goe,
- He must be still familiar with the skyes,
- which notes the reuolutions of thine eyes;
- 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,[5]
Derived terms
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:plod.
Translations
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Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).
Noun
plod (plural plods)
Etymology 3
From PC Plod.
Noun
plod (usually uncountable, plural plods)
- (UK, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
- (UK, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
Synonyms
- (the police): See Thesaurus:police
- (police officer): See Thesaurus:police officer
Translations
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plodъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
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Declension
Derived terms
- oplodí n
See also
Further reading
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plodъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
plȏd m (Cyrillic spelling пло̑д)
- fruit (part of plant)
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plodъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
plọ̑d m inan
- fruit (part of plant)
Inflection
Masculine inan., hard o-stem, long mixed accent, plural in -ôv- | |||
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nom. sing. | plód | ||
gen. sing. | plodú | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
plód | plodôva | plodôvi |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
plodú | plodôv | plodôv |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
plódu | plodôvoma | plodôvom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
plód | plodôva | plodôve |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
plódu | plodôvih | plodôvih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
plódom | plodôvoma | plodôvi |
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
---|---|---|---|
nom. sing. | plód | ||
gen. sing. | plóda | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
plód | plóda | plódi |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
plóda | plódov | plódov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
plódu | plódoma | plódom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
plód | plóda | plóde |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
plódu | plódih | plódih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
plódom | plódoma | plódi |
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