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▪ I. † plodder1 Obs.
[Origin and sense uncertain: perh. f. 16th c. Fr. (and mod.Norm. dial.) plauder for pelauder ‘to thwack, swindge, belabour..cudgell..; to vse roughly..handle rudely’ (Cotgr.).]
? One who belabours or handles roughly.
c1400Destr. Troy 12862 Pilours and plodders, piked þere goodes, Kyld of þe comyns, & myche care did. a1475Wyntoun's Cron. vii. 4998 (Royal MS.), I vow to God scho mais grete stere The Scottis wenche ploddere. [Cf. prec.]
▪ II. plodder2|ˈplɒdə(r)|
[f. plod v. + -er1.]
One who plods. a. Usually, One who works slowly and laboriously; a persevering toiler, a drudge.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 86 Small haue continuall plodders euer wonne, Saue base authoritie from others Bookes. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 312 Being an indefatigable plodder at his book [he] took the degree of M. of Arts. 1760Johnson Idler No. 95 ⁋13 Wealthy plodders were only purveyors for men of spirit. 1850S. Dobell Roman v, Shall I..Work first and be paid after, like the plodder In yonder field?
b. One who trudges in walking. rare.
1832W. Stephenson Gateshead Local Poems 35 Old harmless..Deborah Dick, Thro' thick and thin a Plodder.
Hence † ˈplodderly adv., after the manner of a plodder; laboriously, clumsily.
c1605Beaumont (Sloane MS. 1709) in Athenæum 27 Jan. (1894) 115/1 Pronunciation of vile speeches in vile plotts..in the most plodderly plotted shew of Lady Amity. |