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語源 1

From 中期英語 *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”).

名詞

plod (uncountable)

1. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.

   We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.

   • 2025 February 23, Lisa Haseldine, “Whatever happens next, Merkelism is finished”, in The Telegraph‎, archived from the original on 23 February 2025:

     Germany can’t afford to stick to the stately plod into decline that Merkel initiated any longer. Merz will have to act fast, and break things to pull the country out of the quagmire it finds itself in.

動詞

plod (third-person singular simple present plods, present participle plodding, simple past and past participle plodded)

1. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 50”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
     Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 1, in Treasure 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 came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;

2. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
   • 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible‎, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, page 127:

     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 idlely plodding 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,

     […] Speed thou to Lombard-street,

     Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet,

     'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad‎, London: The Richards Press, XLVI, pp. 69-70:

     Break no rosemary, bright with rime
     And sparkling to the cruel clime;
     Nor plod the winter land to look
     For willows in the icy brook
     To cast them leafless round him […]

3. (intransitive) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.

   On Sundays I keep plodding along at my job.

   • 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,

     Poore plodding 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;

4. (transitive) To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.

派生語

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:plod.

語源 2

From 中期英語 plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).

名詞

plod (plural plods)

1. (obsolete) A puddle.

語源 3

From PC Plod.

名詞

plod (usually uncountable, plural plods)

1. (UK, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
2. (UK, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

同意語

• (the police): See Thesaurus:police
• (police officer): See Thesaurus:police officer

派生語

• plastic plod