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:

     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^[1], 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,^[2]

     […] 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^[3], 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.

   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,^[4]

     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.

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 (cs) impf, vléci se, belhat se impf, vláčet se impf
• Danish: traske
• Dutch: ploeteren (nl)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} marŝi (eo)
• Finnish: raahustaa, laahustaa (fi)
• French: marcher lourdement
• German: stapfen (de)
• Hindi: पाँव घसीटना (pā̃v ghasīṭnā), रेंगना (reṅgnā)
• 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, 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)

to toil

• Czech: lopotit se impf, dřít (cs) impf

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

Derived terms

• plastic plod

Translations

the police

• Macedonian: поли́ција f (polícija)

a police officer

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

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplot]

• Audio:

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Noun

plod m inan

1. fruit
2. fetus

Declension

Declension of plod (hard masculine inanimate)

	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 (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “plod”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “plod”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

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)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited 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

Slovene

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plodъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plóːt/
• Rhymes: -oːt
• Hyphenation: plod
• Homophone: plot

Noun

plọ̑d m inan

1. fruit (seed-bearing part of plant)

   Synonyms: sad, sadež

2. fetus after the third month of gestation

   Synonym: fetus

3. (literary) result, outcome

   Synonyms: rezultat, izraz, odraz, pridobitev, otrok, output, posledica, produkt, sad

4. (literary) achievement

   Synonyms: dosežek, doseg, rezultat, uspeh, činitev, dobitek, dobitev, domet, dosegljaj, iztržek, produkt, proizvod, sad, žetev

5. (literary, rare) consequence

   Synonyms: posledica, nasledek, nastopek, posledek, sad

   Antonyms: vzrok, razlog, vzročnik

6. (obsolete) tribe^{[→Pleteršnik, 2014]}

   Synonym: pleme

Usage notes

Unlike sad, plod is used more when the seeds and reproducibility are stressed, rather than the edibility of the fruit.

Declension

First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate, -ov- infix) , long mixed accent, ending -u in genitive singular
nom. sing.	plọ̑d
gen. sing.	plodȗ
	singular	dual	plural
nominative imenovȃlnik	plọ̑d	plodȏva	plodȏvi
genitive rodȋlnik	plodȗ	plodóv	plodóv
dative dajȃlnik	plọ̑du, plọ̑di	plodȏvoma, plodȏvama	plodȏvom, plọ̑dȏvam
accusative tožȋlnik	plọ̑d	plodȏva	plodȏve
locative mẹ̑stnik	plọ̑du, plọ̑di	plodȏvih	plodȏvih
instrumental orọ̑dnik	plọ̑dom	plodȏvoma, plodȏvama	plodȏvi
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	plọ̑d	plodȏva	plodȏvi

• in dual and plural stylistically marked

First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent
nom. sing.	plọ̑d
gen. sing.	plọ̑da
	singular	dual	plural
nominative imenovȃlnik	plọ̑d	plọ̑da	plọ̑di
genitive rodȋlnik	plọ̑da	plọ̑dov	plọ̑dov
dative dajȃlnik	plọ̑du, plọ̑di	plọ̑doma, plọ̑dama	plọ̑dom, plọ̑dam
accusative tožȋlnik	plọ̑d	plọ̑da	plọ̑de
locative mẹ̑stnik	plọ̑du, plọ̑di	plọ̑dih, plọ̑dah	plọ̑dih, plọ̑dah
instrumental orọ̑dnik	plọ̑dom	plọ̑doma, plọ̑dama	plọ̑di
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	plọ̑d	plọ̑da	plọ̑di

Derived terms

• oplájati
• oplodīti
• oplojeváti
• plọ́den
• plodīti
• plọ́dnost
• plodovȋt
• razplodīti
• razplojeváti
• zaplodīti
• zaplojeváti

 

Further reading

• “plod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “plod”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references