单词 | plodge |
释义 | plodgev. Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern) intransitive. To plunge; to wade through water, mud, etc.; to walk laboriously over soft ground or through undergrowth, etc.; to trudge. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > through liquid or mud wadec1220 waselc1394 ford1675 slunk1728 slop1783 plodge1787 spatter1806 slutch1821 slumper1829 squelch1849 slush1853 splodge1896 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Plodge, to plunge. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Plodge, to wade through water, to plunge. 1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 27 To see the folks a' duckin; men an' wives together pludg'd. 1885 Fortnight in Waggonette 63 What work to plodge through it [sc. heather] for hour after hour! 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 449 All recedes. Bloom plodges forward again. 1983 I. Watson Bk. of River (1984) iii. 135 I plodged out to where the mud fell sharply away—and launched myself upon the luminous highway. 1995 Countryman Summer 149 Northbound Pennine Wayfarers, plodging through the interminable peat-bogs of the North Pennines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1787 |
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