Definitions and meaning of plod
plod
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /plɒd/
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- Rhymes: -ɒd, -ɑːd
Etymology 1
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”).
Noun
plod (uncountable)
- A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
- We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.
Verb
plod (third-person singular simple present plods, present participle plodding, simple past and past participle plodded)
- (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
- (transitive) To trudge over or through.
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- 1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451,[2]
- […] Speed thou to Lombard-street,
- Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet,
- 'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,
- 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,[4]
- 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;
- (transitive) To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
Derived terms
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:plod.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).
Noun
plod (plural plods)
- (obsolete) A puddle.
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
Derived terms
Translations
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech plod, from Proto-Slavic *plodъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
plod m inan
- fruit
- fetus
Declension
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- plod in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- plod in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- plod in Internetová jazyková příručka
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic плодъ (plodŭ), from Proto-Slavic *plodъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
plod n (plural plozi)
- (derogatory) small child
- (colloquial) fetus
Declension
Further reading
- plod in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plodъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
plȏd m (Cyrillic spelling пло̑д)
- fruit (part of plant)
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plodъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plóːt/
- Rhymes: -oːt
- Hyphenation: plod
- Homophone: plot
Noun
plọ̑d m inan
- fruit (seed-bearing part of plant)
- Synonyms: sad, sadež
- fetus after the third month of gestation
- Synonym: fetus
- (literary) result, outcome
- Synonyms: rezultat, izraz, odraz, pridobitev, otrok, output, posledica, produkt, sad
- (literary) achievement
- Synonyms: dosežek, doseg, rezultat, uspeh, činitev, dobitek, dobitev, domet, dosegljaj, iztržek, produkt, proizvod, sad, žetev
- (literary, rare) consequence
- Synonyms: posledica, nasledek, nastopek, posledek, sad
- Antonyms: vzrok, razlog, vzročnik
- (obsolete) tribe[→Pleteršnik, 2014]
- Synonym: pleme
Usage notes
Unlike sad, plod is used more when the seeds and reproducibility are stressed, rather than the edibility of the fruit.
Declension
- in dual and plural stylistically marked
Derived terms
Further reading
- “plod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
- “plod”, in Termania, Amebis
- See also the general references
Source: wiktionary.org