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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”).

plod (uncountable)

  1. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
    We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.
    • 2025 February 23, Lisa Haseldine, “Whatever happens next, Merkelism is finished”, in The Telegraph‎[1], archived from the original on 23 February 2025:
      Germany can’t afford to stick to the stately plod into decline that Merkel initiated any longer. Merz will have to act fast, and break things to pull the country out of the quagmire it finds itself in.

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).
  2. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
    • 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible‎[2], 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,[3]
      […] 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[4], 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. (intransitive) 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,[5]
      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.

to walk slowly

From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).

plod (plural plods)

  1. (obsolete) A puddle.

From PC Plod.

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.

the police

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

plod m inan (diminutive plůdek)

  1. fruit
  2. fetus

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic плодъ (plodŭ), from Proto-Slavic *plodъ.

plod n (plural plozi)

  1. (derogatory) small child
  2. (colloquial) fetus

From Proto-Slavic *plodъ.

plȏd m inan (Cyrillic spelling пло̑д)

  1. fruit (part of plant)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plodъ.

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

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

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
nominativeimenovȃlnik plọ̑d plodȏva plodȏvi
genitiverodȋlnik plodȗ plodóv plodóv
dativedajȃlnik plọ̑du, plọ̑di plodȏvoma, plodȏvama plodȏvom, plọ̑dȏvam
accusativetožȋlnik plọ̑d plodȏva plodȏve
locativemẹ̑stnik plọ̑du, plọ̑di plodȏvih plodȏvih
instrumentalorọ̑dnik plọ̑dom plodȏvoma, plodȏvama plodȏvi
(vocative)(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) plọ̑d plodȏva plodȏvi
First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent
nom. sing. plọ̑d
gen. sing. plọ̑da
singular dual plural
nominativeimenovȃlnik plọ̑d plọ̑da plọ̑di
genitiverodȋlnik plọ̑da plọ̑dov plọ̑dov
dativedajȃlnik plọ̑du, plọ̑di plọ̑doma, plọ̑dama plọ̑dom, plọ̑dam
accusativetožȋlnik plọ̑d plọ̑da plọ̑de
locativemẹ̑stnik plọ̑du, plọ̑di plọ̑dih, plọ̑dah plọ̑dih, plọ̑dah
instrumentalorọ̑dnik plọ̑dom plọ̑doma, plọ̑dama plọ̑di
(vocative)(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) plọ̑d plọ̑da plọ̑di