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▪ I. plod, v.|plɒd|
Also 7–8 dial. plad.
[Known from c 1560; app. of onomatopœic origin. (ME. plodder seems to be unconnected.)
Some would connect it with ME. plod (plodde), plud, a puddle, a pool, taking the original sense as ‘to wade in a puddle, to splash through water or mud’; but no special reference to puddles or wading appears in the use of the word, which seems rather to suggest the dull sound of labouring steps on moderately firm ground.]
1. intr. To walk heavily or without elasticity; to move or progress laboriously, to trudge. Also plod on. lit. and fig.
a1566R. Edwards Damon & Pithias in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 27, I like not this soil, for as I go plodding, I mark there two, there three, their heads always nodding, In close secret wise. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1860) 3 Plodding through Aldersgate..with a quarter Ashe staffe on my Shoulder. 1601Shakes. All's Well iii. iv. 6 Bare-foot plod I the cold ground vpon. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 27 Wee plod-on in the common Road of habituated husbandry. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) I. i. 31 Plodding along through a tasteless existence. 1821J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Wallace i, If such there be still let him plod On the dull foggy paths of care. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men I. iii. 340 We plodded along in profound silence.
b. trans. To trudge along, over, or through (a road, etc.); to make (one's way) by plodding.
1750Gray Elegy 3 The plowman homeward plods his weary way. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. iii, The journeying years Plod the last sands of life. 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xlvi, Nor plod the winter land to look For willows in the icy brook. 1903R. D. Shaw Pauline Epist. 176 In obedience to a dream..Augustus plodded the streets of Rome and gathered coppers as a beggar.
2. intr. To work with steady laborious perseverance; to toil in a laborious, stolid, monotonous fashion; to drudge, slave. Const. at, on, upon.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 91 What thing is it..in your brain ploddyng. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 170 If such a one wax obstinat in plodding at the Lawes, and spend much time in the Schooles. a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 66 The dull Christian sitts often fruitlesly plodding on the Booke, nay heares the Prophesies often preached to no purpose. 1706Phillips, Plod, to labour earnestly in Business, to have one's Head full of it. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 686 We may suppose the possessor of it argued..‘It is not worth while to plod with a single talent, for sake of the slender profit that may be made of it by the best management’. 1879G. Meredith Egoist xii, There you have the secret of good work—to plod on and still keep the passion fresh.
†b. trans. plod out: To spend (time) in plodding. Obs. rare.
1749Chesterfield Lett. (1792) II. 294 To plod out the evenings..at home over a book.
†3. Of hounds: see quot. 1688. Obs.
1575Turberv. Venerie 36 If there be any yong hounde which woulde carie or hang behind, beyng opinionate..and ploddyng by himselfe. Ibid. 240 Hounds do cal on, bawle, bable, crie, yearne, lapyse, plodde, baye and such like other noyses. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 76/1 They plod, is when Hounds hang behind, and beat too much upon the scent in one place.
¶4. Confused with or influenced by plot v. in various senses. Obs. (Cf. plot v.3 = plod.)
1631J. Taylor (Water P.) Turn Fort. Wheel Pref., Which makes our foes complot consult and plod, How and by what means they may warr with God. 1663R. Blair Autobiog. iii. (1848) 54 Yet gave I not over plodding to obstruct my settling there. 1712Steele Spect. No. 450 ⁋4, I fell a plodding what Advantages might be made of the ready Cash I had. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 240 They were plodding mischief for twenty years before we forced them to commit hostilities.
▪ II. plod, n.1|plɒd|
[f. plod v.]
a. An act or spell of plodding; a heavy tiring walk. Also fig. Also with alliterative reduplication, as plod-plod.
1880Daily News 3 Nov. 5/8 We accepted an ankle-deep plod through filth indescribable and treacherous boulders. 1890R. Bridges Shorter Poems iii. 13 Only life's common plod: still to repair The body and the thing which perisheth. 1899N. B. Tarkington Gentleman from Indiana xv. 266 What was there left but the weary plod, plod, and dust of years? 1926Blackw. Mag. Apr. 519/2 The angles of the rungs become very painful under the slow plod-plod of the horse's movement. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 9 June 654/2 This plod-plod of approach and application isn't novel. 1975M. Bradbury Hist. Man ix. 148 The agenda has grown longer..a routine plod through matters of budgets..and examinations. 1979Guardian 23 Oct. 15/8 Those who found the book a bit of a plod but hoped the screen might set it up.
b. The sound of a heavy dull tread or the like; tramp, thud.
1902Westm. Gaz. 23 June 1/3 What is the voice of London? Is it not the plod, plod, dumping plod of the horses' hoofs?
Add:2. Also P.C. Plod. [In allusion to Mr Plod the Policeman in Enid Blyton's Noddy stories for children: see *Noddy n.5] A policeman, a police officer; also, the police. (joc. or mildly derog.)
1977It June 6/1 Two irradiated plods sweat and struggle beneath an undeserved karmic penalty. 1978P. O'Donnell Dragon's Claw viii. 147 They could be on their way home before P.C. Plod has got his notebook out. 1981New Society 16 July 93/3 ‘It's the plods, chucking bricks,’ said a soul-boy, giggling in disbelief. 1984J. Malcolm Godwin Sideboard xvi. 126 ‘Now see here, PC Plod, you keep your bloody—’ ‘Stop it!’ 1986‘J. Gash’ Moonspender v. 44 The good old days spent..bribing the Plod in London's East End. 1987Private Eye 29 May 8/3 The poor plod in the Metro who has the task of patrolling what is now one of the worst areas in North London for crimes against property.
▪ III. plod, n.2 Austral.|plɒd|
[perh. plop n. influenced by plot n.: see plod v. 4.]
a. A (particular) piece of ground worked by a miner. Also, a work sheet with information relevant to this.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 55 Pitching the plod, ‘the exchange of words’ between miners ‘on the state of the ground when coming on or going off shifts’. 1948K. S. Prichard Golden Miles 72 He had to go to the office for his plod—the card on which he filled in particulars of the work he was doing, its position in the mine, and the hours he was working.
b. A story or yarn; an excuse.
Plod is entered in the Eng. Dial. Dict. as a Cornish word meaning ‘a short or dull story; a lying tale’.
1945G. Casey Downhill is Easier 136 ‘I suppose he told you the whole plod?’ I sneered. 1954T. A. G. Hungerford Sowers of Wind 241 That's the plod he put up, anyway. 1975X. Herbert Poor Fellow my Country iii. xxi. 1126 Put in a plod for me, mate.
▪ IV. plod, plodan, plodden
obs. ff. plaid, -ing.
▪ V. plod, plodde
obs. forms of ploud, plud. |