Synonyms for plodder

Grammar : Noun

Spell : plod

Phonetic Transcription : plɒd

Top 10 synonyms for plodder

Other synonyms for the word plodder

Définition 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

Example sentences :

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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