Definition of Plodder

1. Noun. Someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner.

Exact synonyms: Slogger, Trudger
Generic synonyms: Footer, Pedestrian, Walker
Derivative terms: Plod, Trudge

2. Noun. Someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours.
Exact synonyms: Slogger
Generic synonyms: Drudge, Hack, Hacker
Derivative terms: Plod, Slog

3. Noun. Someone who moves slowly. "In England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"
Exact synonyms: Slowcoach, Slowpoke, Stick-in-the-mud
Generic synonyms: Dawdler, Drone, Laggard, Lagger, Poke, Trailer
Derivative terms: Plod

Definition of Plodder

1. n. One who plods; a drudge.

Definition of Plodder

1. Noun. One who plods. ¹

2. Noun. A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plodder

1. one that plods [n -S] - See also: plods

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plodder

plippers
plipping
pliskie
pliskies
plisky
plisse
plisses
ploat
ploated
ploating
ploats
ploce
plocytic astrocytoma
plod
plodded
plodder (current term)
plodders
plodding
ploddingly
ploddingness
ploddings
plodge
plodged
plodges
plodgin
plodging
plods
ploidies
ploidize
ploidy

Literary usage of Plodder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Soaps: A Complete Treatise on the Manufacture of Soap, with Special by Henry Gathmann (1893)
"The plodder. From the mill the soap passes into the hopper of the plodder. ... The first few feet of the bar issuing from the plodder must be returned to ..."

2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Bush, 'The Resurrection,' p. 51 (Bartlett). Dig. A plodder. College slang. 1837 A clever soul is one, I say, ..."

3. Some Great Leaders in the World Movement by Robert Elliott Speer (1911)
"If he gives me credit for being a plodder he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite ..."

4. The Foundations of National Prosperity: Studies in the Conservation of by Richard Theodore Ely, Ralph Henry Hess, Charles Kenneth Leith, Thomas Nixon Carver (1917)
"... maintain that he The uninspired illustrates precisely what every man is in duty weii imitate the bound to do, whether he be an inspired producer plodder ..."

5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1909)
"After satisfactory results have been obtained in the milling process, the soap is ready for the plodder. The soap as it comes from the mill is in thin, ..."

6. American Soaps: A Complete Treatise on the Manufacture of Soap, with Special by Henry Gathmann (1893)
"The plodder. From the mill the soap passes into the hopper of the plodder. ... The first few feet of the bar issuing from the plodder must be returned to ..."

7. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Bush, 'The Resurrection,' p. 51 (Bartlett). Dig. A plodder. College slang. 1837 A clever soul is one, I say, ..."

8. Some Great Leaders in the World Movement by Robert Elliott Speer (1911)
"If he gives me credit for being a plodder he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite ..."

9. The Foundations of National Prosperity: Studies in the Conservation of by Richard Theodore Ely, Ralph Henry Hess, Charles Kenneth Leith, Thomas Nixon Carver (1917)
"... maintain that he The uninspired illustrates precisely what every man is in duty weii imitate the bound to do, whether he be an inspired producer plodder ..."

10. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1909)
"After satisfactory results have been obtained in the milling process, the soap is ready for the plodder. The soap as it comes from the mill is in thin, ..."

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