Plod

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːd
• UK IPA: /plÉ’d/
• Rhymes: -É’d

From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plod ("a puddle"). Compare Danish pladder ("mire").

Full definition of plod

Noun

1. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.

Verb

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.
• Draytonplodding schoolmen

Derived terms

• plodder
• plodding

From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder ("mire").

Noun

1. (obsolete) A puddle.

From PC Plod

Noun

1. (UK, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
2. (UK, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

Synonyms

• (the police) filth