noun
Meaning 1
A person who, or animal that, plods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
plodder
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noun
Meaning 2
A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1899, Pansy (pseudonym of Isabella Macdonald Alden), Three People, Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Chapter 21, p. 271, What an indefatigable plodder you are to get those papers ready so soon, and an unmerciful man besides to make me go over them to-night.
Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 3
A machine for extruding soap, margarine, etc. through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
someone who moves slowly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, slowcoach
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke
noun
Meaning 5
someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slogger
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hack, drudge, hacker
noun
Meaning 6
someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trudger, slogger
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pedestrian, walker, footer
History
Etymology
From Middle English plodder, equivalent to plod + -er.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: мару́да (marúda) — a person who works slowly
- French: bâilleur — a person who works slowly
- French: bâilleuse — a person who works slowly
- German: Arbeitstier — a person who works slowly
- Māori: waewae pakiaka — a person who works slowly
- Polish: grzebuła — a person who works slowly
- Polish: guzdrała — a person who works slowly
- Polish: maruda — a person who works slowly
- Polish: maruder — a person who works slowly
- Polish: ślamazara — a person who works slowly
- Polish: ślamazarnik — a person who works slowly
- Russian: копу́ша (kopúša) — a person who works slowly
- Russian: копу́н (kopún) — a person who works slowly
- Russian: копу́нья (kopúnʹja) — a person who works slowly
- Walloon: londjin — a person who works slowly
- Walloon: bezén — a person who works slowly