plod

Etymology 1
From (found only in derivative ), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from,  (whence modern ). Compare 🇨🇬,, , dialectal 🇨🇬, , dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
 * We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.

Verb

 * 1)  To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
 * 2)  To trudge over or through.
 * 3) * 1799,, 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,
 * 1) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
 * 2) * 1597,, “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;
 * 1)  To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
 * which by probations, rules and axiom’s goe,
 * He must be still familiar with the skyes,
 * which notes the reuolutions of thine eyes;
 * 1)  To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.

Derived terms




Translations

 * Bulgarian: мъкна се
 * Czech:, , vléci se, belhat se, vláčet se
 * Danish: traske
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: raahustaa,
 * French: marcher lourdement
 * German:
 * Hindi: पाँव घसीटना, रेंगना
 * Icelandic: arka
 * Italian: camminare a fatica
 * Macedonian: се вле́че
 * Maori: māngaingai, māngaingai ngā waewae
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish: caminar pesadamente
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tamil: ,
 * Ukrainian: чвалати,


 * Czech: lopotit se,

Etymology 2
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A puddle.

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * 1)  the police, police officers
 * 2)  a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

Translations

 * Macedonian: поли́ција


 * Macedonian: полица́ец, ца́јкан

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) fruit
 * 2) fetus

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1)  small child
 * 2)  fetus

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) fruit (part of plant)

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) fruit (seed-bearing part of plant)
 * 2) fetus after the third month of gestation
 * 3)  result, outcome
 * 4)  achievement
 * 5)  consequence
 * 6)  tribe
 * 1)  achievement
 * 2)  consequence
 * 3)  tribe
 * 1)  tribe
 * 1)  tribe
 * 1)  tribe

Usage notes
Unlike , plod is used more when the seeds and reproducibility are stressed, rather than the edibility of the fruit.