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Plodding   /plˈɑdɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Plod  v. t.  To walk on slowly or heavily. "The ploughman homeward plods his weary way."


Plod  v. i.  (past & past part. plodded; pres. part. plodding)  
1.
To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.
2.
To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen."


adjective
Plodding  adj.  Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man of plodding habits.





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"Plodding" Quotes from Famous Books



... was on his way home from a westward trudge, plodding along the remoter part of Fulham Road, when words spoken by a woman whom ...
— Will Warburton • George Gissing
... brought the creature-comfort of a flask. Since that woful day I have lain on the bank and watched excellent anglers skilfully flogging the best of water, and that water full of fish, without hooking one. Salmon-fishing, then, is a matter of chance, or of plodding patience. They will rise on one day at almost any fly (but the sniggler), however ill-presented to them. On a dozen other days no fly and no skill will avail to tempt them. The salmon is a brainless brute and the grapes ...
— Angling Sketches • Andrew Lang
... great as it appeared to be, did not in reality reach below the surface, except in Epirus. The bishops were felt to be foreigners and extortioners. There was no real process of assimilation at work, either in Bulgaria or in the Danubian Provinces. The slow and plodding Bulgarian peasant, too stupid for the Greek to think of him as a rival, preserved his own unchanging tastes and nationality, sang to his children the songs which he had learnt from his parents, and forgot the Greek which he had heard in ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe
... that province far away, Went plodding home a weary boor; A streak of light before him lay, Fallen through a half-shut stable door Across his path. He paused—for naught Told what was going on within; How keen the stars, his only thought,— The air how cold and calm and thin, In the ...
— Eighth Reader • James Baldwin
... noting of the roads, and his other movements entailed in preparing his reports, were all watched and recorded. His letters were opened in the post, sealed up, and sent on. His friends were observed and shadowed on arriving—as they did—at Hull instead of in London. And all the time he was plodding along, wasting his time, quite innocent of the fact that he was being watched, and was incidentally giving us a fine amount ...
— My Adventures as a Spy • Robert Baden-Powell


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