plod

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /plɒd/

• Audio (US)

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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)

1. 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)

1. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 50”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. , London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
     Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 1, in Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 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.
   • 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible‎, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, page 127:

     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,

     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:

     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 […]

3. 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,

     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.

Derived terms

• plodder
• plodding

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:plod.

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

plod (plural plods)

1. (obsolete) A puddle.

Etymology 3

From PC Plod.

Noun

plod (usually uncountable, plural plods)

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): See Thesaurus:police
• (police officer): See Thesaurus:police officer

Derived terms

• plastic plod

Translations

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

plod

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech plod, from Proto-Slavic *plodъ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

plod m inan

1. fruit
2. fetus

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• embryo
• zárodek
• ovoce

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

• IPA^(key): /plod/

Noun

plod n (plural plozi)

1. (derogatory) small child
2. (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

• IPA^(key): /plôːd/

Noun

plȏd m (Cyrillic spelling пло̑д)

1. 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

1. fruit (seed-bearing part of plant)

   Synonyms: sad, sadež

2. fetus after the third month of gestation

   Synonym: fetus

3. (literary) result, outcome

   Synonyms: rezultat, izraz, odraz, pridobitev, otrok, output, posledica, produkt, sad

4. (literary) achievement

   Synonyms: dosežek, doseg, rezultat, uspeh, činitev, dobitek, dobitev, domet, dosegljaj, iztržek, produkt, proizvod, sad, žetev

5. (literary, rare) consequence

   Synonyms: posledica, nasledek, nastopek, posledek, sad

   Antonyms: vzrok, razlog, vzročnik

6. (obsolete) tribe

   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

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• in dual and plural stylistically marked

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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