PLODDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plodder mean? 

• PLODDER (noun)
  The noun PLODDER has 3 senses:

1. someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner

2. someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours

3. someone who moves slowly

  Familiarity information: PLODDER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLODDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

plodder; slogger; trudger

Hypernyms ("plodder" is a kind of...):

footer; pedestrian; walker (a person who travels by foot)

Derivation:

plod (walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

plodder; slogger

Hypernyms ("plodder" is a kind of...):

drudge; hack; hacker (one who works hard at boring tasks)

Derivation:

plod (walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who moves slowly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

plodder; slowcoach; slowpoke; stick-in-the-mud

Context example:

in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach

Hypernyms ("plodder" is a kind of...):

dawdler; drone; laggard; lagger; poke; trailer (someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind)

Derivation:

plod (walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud)

 Context examples 

And others of them have said that he was an industrious plodder rather than an original thinker.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)