plod
Plural: plods
Noun
- the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
- "I could recognize his plod anywhere"
- A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
- A puddle.
- the police, police officers
- a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
Verb
Verb Forms: plodded, plodding, plods
- To walk heavily and slowly, often with effort.
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"
- To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
- To trudge over or through.
- To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
- To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
Examples
- He had to PLOD through the dictionary to find a word that would fit his tricky tiles.
- We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Scrabble Score: 7
plod: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordplod: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
plod: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
plod: valid Words With Friends Word