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单词 plodge
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plodgev.

Brit. /plɒdʒ/, U.S. /plɑdʒ/, Scottish English /plɔdʒ/
Forms: 1700s– plodge, 1800s pludge (English regional (Northumberland)).
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: plod v.1
Etymology: Probably an imitative alteration of plod v.1, perhaps after e.g. plunge v., trudge v. Compare platch v.
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.
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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).
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