Crossword clues for plod
plod
- Move heavily
- Slog wearily along
- Chug along
- Struggle (through)
- Move with difficulty
- March through mud
- Walk ungracefully
- Walk doggedly
- Trudge tediously
- Trudge or drudge
- Tread slowly
- Tramp along
- Slog wearily
- Not tread lightly
- Move like Gray's plowman
- Move like a pachyderm
- Fail to tread lightly
- Be poky
- Work laboriously
- Work (or walk) laboriously
- Walk weightily
- Walk like an elephant
- Walk like a tortoise
- Walk like a lummox
- Walk like a hippo
- Walk exhaustively
- Walk along heavily
- Trudge on
- Trudge laboriously
- Trudge (on)
- Trudge — policeman
- Take laborious steps
- Stomp through mud
- Slog along
- Slog (along)
- Persevere, ... on
- Muddle along
- Move like a turtle
- Move like a tortoise
- Move doggedly
- Move along like a turtle
- March wearily
- Make heavy work of
- Lumber (along)
- Emulate a pachyderm, in a way
- Trudge along
- Slog (through)
- Plug along
- Lumber along
- Proceed slowly but surely
- Plug away
- Don't tread lightly
- Trudge (along)
- Walk wearily
- Move slowly
- Trudge (through)
- Work monotonously
- Opposite of race
- Get through dull work
- Go laboriously
- Move wearily
- Drudge or trudge
- Go slowly but steadily
- Heavy tread
- Walk heavily (like a policeman?)
- Copper plate oxidised at the edges
- What PCs supposedly do when left in casing
- Walk quietly on 17 ground
- Slowly shift PC and get Apple, good but oddly deficient
- Noddy's police constable
- Policeman from Lima involved in case
- PC 49, plus one in enclosed space
- In seed case find large bluebottle
- Trudge wearily
- Tramp left in shell
- Tread heavily
- Walk slowly with a heavy tread
- Walk with weariness
- Walk with heavy steps
- Step heavily
- Move with effort
- Walk with difficulty
- Proceed laboriously
- Make slow progress
- Walk with effort
- Shuffle along
- Proceed tediously
- Walk laboriously
- Trudge through mud, say
- Move laboriously
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plod \Plod\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Plodded; p. pr. & vb. n. Plodding.] [Gf. Gael. plod a clod, a pool; also, to strike or pelt with a clod or clods.]
To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.
--Shak.To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. ``Plodding schoolmen.''
--Drayton.
Plod \Plod\, v. t. To walk on slowly or heavily.
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way.
--Gray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, of uncertain origin, perhaps imitative of the sound of walking heavily or slowly. Related: Plodded; plodding.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over). 2 (context transitive English) To trudge over or through. 3 To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. Etymology 2
n. (context obsolete English) A puddle. Etymology 3
n. 1 (context UK mildly derogatory uncountable usually with "the" English) the police, police officers 2 (context UK mildly derogatory countable English) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Plod may refer to:
- Mr. Plod, a fictional police officer in the Noddy stories written by Enid Blyton
- Postman Plod, a fictional character from the British adult spoof comic magazine Viz
- P'lod, a fictional extraterrestrial created by the American tabloid newspapaper Weekly World News
Usage examples of "plod".
Behind him he could hear Plod and the Basilican soldier also standing and bowing.
In the last half-hour, as the two ships closed, the Biter signalled her intentions exceeding clearly, and the Noble Goring, as the trader was bizarrely named, ignored them with plodding insouciance.
The guerrillas, plodding slowly and burdened with their sick, followed the smell of the warm deer and the trail of its freshly spilled blood.
Stuffed like sausages into wagons or carts, riding any available beast, even on foot, the horde plodded down the road to the valley before the gates of Deese House.
Thomas, dinnerless and supperless, reached Hamstead, and plodding doggedly up the road in a heavy rain, met Mr.
As Pauli and Alex plodded their way along the duckboards which made a slatted floor for the deep trench, both were thinking of Brand.
Thoroughly reminded of why he avoided heavy drinking, Dreibrand grabbed his armor and plodded into Fata Nor, searching for a well.
However, I plodded on, drawing some small comfort from the fact that as darkness came the mist rose from the ground and appeared to condense in a ghostly curtain twenty feet overhead, where it hung between me and a clear night sky, presently illumined by starlight with the strangest effect.
Handing the brass image to Foy, the leader of the Wu-Fan, plodded toward his throne, with his servant advancing, crouched, beside him.
Fleetwood depicted his plodding Gower at the tussle with account-books.
We plodded upward all that cold wet morning, and in the afternoon we came to the longest of those long hills, its top lost in a driving gurry of snow and rain.
The middle-aged handicap hurdler plodding sleepily round the ring was the third Axminster horse I had ridden during the week, and I had already grown to appreciate the sleekness and slickness of his organization.
He carried the blankets and jerrican, water bottles 258 and food tin hitched to his body, and held her good arm to support her as she plodded on blindly now, stumbling a little.
His horse ignored him, continuing to plod grudgingly along through the dense San Linder woods.
Below, morning sun gleamed on a stream diverted and partly canalized to make a route for freight-pitchens, mindlessly plodding from loq to loq with their massive burdens.