plod

Bedeutung (English)

Noun

A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.

Verb

1. To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
2. To trudge over or through.
3. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
4. To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.

Konzepte

trotten

schuften

stapfen

tapsen

schlendern

sich abplagen

ackern

sich schleppen

Synonyms

trudge

walk slowly

slog

fag

tramp

walk heavily

footslog

shamble

trudge along

trail along

lumber

pad

scuff

plodding

drag oneself along

dradgery

drudgery

gradually

plug

shuffle

slave

slouch

toil

trot

walk

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truge

start wandering

drudge

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/plɒd/

Etymologie (English)

Inherited from Mittelenglisch: *plodden

Cognate with Schottisch: plod

Cognate with Niederländisch: plodden

Cognate with Deutsch: ploddern

Cognate with Dänisch: pladder

In summary

From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”).