Other forms: plodding, plods, plodded
To plod is to walk slowly with heavy steps. Plod through the mud, plodding along, plod home.
It carries tiredness and dogged persistence together — the plodder gets there. Applied to writing or work it means dull but steady. In British slang the plod is the police. The word probably began as splashing through mud.
1verbplodTo walk slowly with heavy steps.
“The tired hikers plodded up the muddy path in the rain.”
plod is a way of walking.
Middle English plodden, probably from a word for a puddle — originally to splash through water and mud.
Middle English
*plodden
English, today
plod
Built from
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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Ways of Moving