Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who trudges or wanders about; a “moss-trooper.”
- noun One who plods; a drudge; a dull, laborious person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who plods; a drudge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
plods . - noun A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours
- noun someone who moves slowly
- noun someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was what you might call a plodder -- you might call him that.
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He was a kind of plodder, though, good fellow as he was.
The Four Million O. Henry 1886
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Not bad for a "plodder", and not bad for the man whose style of play is the antithesis of the modern day "bomb and gouge" style.
Luke Donald faces Martin Kaymer in Match Play Championship final 2011
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And others of them have said that he was an industrious plodder rather than an original thinker.
Chapter 37 2010
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Must agree with Jim that this was a ‘plodder’ of a story.
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The difference between him, that plodder, and me, the brilliant multi-tasker, is that I might have looked busier as I frantically shuffled through papers and tapped computer keys and shouted into my cell phone.
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Asked if he was hurt by criticism of his appointment as England's one-day captain earlier this year, when Mike Atherton led the condemnation by describing him as a "plodder" and a "donkey", Cook almost bristles.
Alastair Cook: Who wouldn't want to captain England's Test team? 2011
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The difference between him, that plodder, and me, the brilliant multi-tasker, is that I might have looked busier as I frantically shuffled through papers and tapped computer keys and shouted into my cell phone.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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"It took me one ball to go from 99 to my century," Cook the plodder grins.
Alastair Cook: Who wouldn't want to captain England's Test team? 2011
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In such circumstances, the victory usually goes not to the player with the most talent but the player with sufficient talent and the greatest amount of determination, a plodder rather than a dashing blade such as McIlroy or Anthony Kim.
Why Whistling Straits is a course to make Tiger Woods wince Lawrence Donegan at Whistling Straits 2010
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