plod
/plɑd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod."
- "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."
- "The beast that bears me, tired with my woe, Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,"
- "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;"
- "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,"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *plodden, plod
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /plɑd/
- British English: /plɒd/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law, Botany.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
For quotations using this term
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