plod
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.
- 2.
(obsolete)A puddle.
- 3.
(UK, derogatory, mildly, uncountable, usually, with definite article)(UK, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
- 4.
(UK, countable, derogatory, mildly, usually)(UK, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
- 2.
(transitive)To trudge over or through.
1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451, […] Speed thou to Lombard-street, Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet, 'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,
- 3.
(intransitive)To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
On Sundays I keep plodding along at my job.
1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling, 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;
- 4.
(transitive)To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
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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 plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal plodden, plodderen, dialectal ploddern, pladder.