plod

plod

See also: ploď, płod, and płód

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /plɒd/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒd, -ɑːd

Etymology 1

From Middle English *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”).

Noun

plod (uncountable)

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

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

Verb

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 216596634:

     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 702939134, 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, p. 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. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
   • 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;

Derived terms

• plodder
• plodding

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

Translations

to walk slowly

Bulgarian: мъкна се (mǎkna se) Czech: trmácet se (cs) impf, plahočit se impf, vléci se, belhat se impf Danish: traske Finnish: raahustaa, laahustaa (fi) French: marcher lourdement German: stapfen (de) Icelandic: arka Italian: camminare a 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 Swedish: lunka (sv) Tamil: உந்துதல் (ta) (untutal), நகர்தல் (ta) (nakartal) Ukrainian: чвалати (čvalaty), брести (uk) (bresty) Westrobothnian: kniik

Etymology 2

From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).

Noun

plod (plural plods)

1. (obsolete) A puddle.

Etymology 3

From PC Plod.

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

the police

Macedonian: поли́ција f (polícija)

a police officer

Macedonian: полица́ец m (policáec), ца́јкан m (cájkan)

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Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech plod, from Proto-Slavic *plodъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplot]

• audio

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Noun

plod m

1. fruit
2. fetus

Declension

Declension of plod

	singular	plural
nominative	plod	plody
genitive	plodu	plodů
dative	plodu	plodům
accusative	plod	plody
vocative	plode	plody
locative	plodu	plodech
instrumental	plodem	plody

Derived terms

• oplodí n

See also

• embryo
• zárodek
• ovoce

Further reading

• plod in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• plod in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• plod in Internetová jazyková příručka

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic плодъ (plodŭ), from Proto-Slavic *plodъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plod/

Noun

plod n (plural plozi)

1. (derogatory) small child
2. (colloquial) fetus

Declension

Declension of plod

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) plod	plodul	(niște) plozi	plozile
genitive/dative	(unui) plod	plodului	(unor) plozi	plozilor
vocative	plodule		plozilor

Further reading

• plod in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plodъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plôːd/

Noun

plȏd m (Cyrillic spelling пло̑д)

1. fruit (part of plant)

Declension

Declension of plod

	singular	plural
nominative	plȏd	plòdovi
genitive	ploda	plodova
dative	plodu	plodovima
accusative	plod	plodove
vocative	plode	plodovi
locative	plodu	plodovima
instrumental	plodom	plodovima

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plodъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plóːt/

Noun

plọ̑d m inan

1. fruit (part of plant)

Inflection

Masculine inan., hard o-stem, mobile accent, plural in -ôv-
nom. sing.	plód
gen. sing.	plodú
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	plód	plodôva	plodôvi
genitive (rodȋlnik)	plodú	plodôv	plodôv
dative (dajȃlnik)	plódu	plodôvoma	plodôvom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	plód	plodôva	plodôve
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	plódu	plodôvih	plodôvih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	plódom	plodôvoma	plodôvi

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	plód
gen. sing.	plóda
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	plód	plóda	plódi
genitive (rodȋlnik)	plóda	plódov	plódov
dative (dajȃlnik)	plódu	plódoma	plódom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	plód	plóda	plóde
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	plódu	plódih	plódih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	plódom	plódoma	plódi

Derived terms

• plọ́den

Further reading

• “plod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran