plod

Meanings

Noun

• A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
• A puddle.
• the police, police officers
• a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

Verb

• To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
• To trudge over or through.
• To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.

Origin

• From Middle English (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plod. Compare Dutch plodden, Dutch plodderen and Danish pladder ("mire").
• From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder ("mire").
• From PC Plod.