FromMiddle English*plodden (found only in derivativeplodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, fromplodde,pludde(“a puddle”) (whence modernplud). CompareScotsplod,plodge,plodder, dialectalDutchplodden,plodderen, dialectalGermanploddern,Danishpladder(“mire”).
plod (uncountable)
- Aslow orlaboredwalk or othermotion oractivity.
We started at a brisk walk and ended at aplod.
plod (third-person singular simple presentplods,present participleplodding,simple past and past participleplodded)
- (intransitive) Towalk ormoveslowly andheavily orlaboriously (+ on, through, over).
1881–1882,Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 1, inTreasure Island, London; Paris:Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883,→OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer),page 1:I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he cameplodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;
- (transitive) Totrudge over or through.
1596, Henoch Clapham,A Briefe of the Bible[1], Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, page127:Quest[ion]. Where was Ioseph?
Answ[er]. It may be, he was playing the Carpenter abrode for all their three livings, but sure it is, he was not idlelyplodding the streetes, much lesse tipling in the Taverne with our idle swingers.
- 1799,Matthew Gregory Lewis,The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451,[2]
- […] Speed thou to Lombard-street,
- Orplod the gambling 'Change with busy feet,
- 'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,
1896,A. E. Housman,A Shropshire Lad[3], London: The Richards Press,XLVI, pp. 69-70:Break no rosemary, bright with rime
And sparkling to the cruel clime;
Norplod the winter land to look
For willows in the icy brook
To cast them leafless round him[…]
- (intransitive) Totoil; todrudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
- On Sundays I keepplodding along at my job.
- 1597,Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” inEnglands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,[4]
- Pooreplodding schoolemen, they are farre too low,
- which by probations, rules and axiom’s goe,
- He must be still familiar with the skyes,
- which notes the reuolutions of thine eyes;
- (transitive) Toextrude (soap,margarine, etc.) through adie plate so it can be cut intobillets.
to walk slowly
- Bulgarian:мъкна се(mǎkna se)
- Czech:trmácet se (cs) impf,plahočit se (cs) impf,vléci se,belhat se impf,vláčet se impf
- Danish:traske
- Dutch:ploeteren (nl)
- Esperanto:(pleaseverify)marŝi (eo)
- Finnish:raahustaa,laahustaa (fi)
- French:marcher lourdement
- German:stapfen (de)
- Hindi:पाँव घसीटना(pā̃v ghasīṭnā),रेंगना(reṅgnā)
- Icelandic:arka
- Italian:camminarea fatica
- Macedonian:се вле́че(se vléče)
- Maori:māngaingai,māngaingai ngā waewae
- Russian:тащи́ться (ru) impf(taščítʹsja),брести́ (ru) impf(brestí),плести́сь (ru) impf(plestísʹ),волочи́ться (ru) impf(voločítʹsja)
- Spanish:caminar pesadamente,caminar arduamente,caminar dispendiosamente,caminar fatigosamente,caminar penosamente
- Swedish:lunka (sv),knoga (sv)
- Tamil:உந்துதல் (ta)(untutal),நகர்தல் (ta)(nakartal)
- Ukrainian:чвалати(čvalaty),брести (uk)(bresty)
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FromMiddle Englishplod. Cognate withDanishpladder(“mire”).
plod (pluralplods)
- (obsolete) Apuddle.
FromPC Plod.
plod (usuallyuncountable,pluralplods)
- (UK, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") thepolice,police officers
- (UK, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
Inherited fromOld Czechplod, fromProto-Slavic*plodъ.
plod m inan (diminutiveplůdek)
- fruit
- fetus
Declension ofplod (hard masculine inanimate)
- “plod”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
- “plod”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989
- “plod”, inInternetová jazyková příručka (in Czech),2008–2025
Borrowed fromOld Church Slavonicплодъ(plodŭ), fromProto-Slavic*plodъ.
plod n (pluralplozi)
- (derogatory) smallchild
- (colloquial)fetus
Inherited fromProto-Slavic*plodъ.
plȏd m (Cyrillic spellingпло̑д)
- fruit (part of plant)
Inherited fromProto-Slavic*plodъ.
plọ̑d m inan
- fruit (seed-bearing part of plant)
- Synonyms:sad,sadež
- fetus after the third month ofgestation
- Synonym:fetus
- (literary)result,outcome
- Synonyms:rezultat,izraz,odraz,pridobitev,otrok,output,posledica,produkt,sad
- (literary)achievement
- Synonyms:dosežek,doseg,rezultat,uspeh,činitev,dobitek,dobitev,domet,dosegljaj,iztržek,produkt,proizvod,sad,žetev
- (literary, rare)consequence
- Synonyms:posledica,nasledek,nastopek,posledek,sad
- Antonyms:vzrok,razlog,vzročnik
- (obsolete)tribe[→Pleteršnik, 2014]
- Synonym:pleme
Unlikesad,plod is used more when the seeds and reproducibility are stressed, rather than the edibility of the fruit.
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- “plod”, inSlovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
- “plod”, inTermania, Amebis
- See also thegeneral references
