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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : plod |
| Phonetic Transcription : plɒd |
Definition of plodder
Origin :- 1560s, of uncertain origin, perhaps imitative of the sound of walking heavily or slowly. Related: Plodded; plodding.
- As in slowpoke : noun laggard
- As in drudge : noun slave, very hard worker
- As in hack : noun person who does easy work for money
- I have not been the better for it; I was getting on faster while I was merely a plodder.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- He and Mira were at breakfast and Mrs. Plodder had come to help.
- Extract from : « Under Fire » by Charles King
- He was what you might call a plodder—you might call him that.
- Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- This contempt for the plodder extends also to the scholastic sphere.
- Extract from : « The Lighter Side of School Life » by Ian Hay
- It used to be asserted of Plodder that he was figuring for the Signal Corps.
- Extract from : « Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life » by Charles King
- It was not only in the regiment that Plodder became a notoriety.
- Extract from : « Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life » by Charles King
- Plodder's cautionary signal had been hoisted to some purpose after all.
- Extract from : « Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life » by Charles King
- Under these circumstances, Plodder was not the man to hesitate.
- Extract from : « Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life » by Charles King
- No plodder ever kept more closely to the safe and beaten path.
- Extract from : « The Brothers' War » by John Calvin Reed
- And if I do not kill my people it is because I have no originality, I am a plodder, a second-rate man!
- Extract from : « Carlyon Sahib » by Gilbert Murray
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