plodding on

This word came to my attention when a friend made a comment on my grammar. He sited this poem :

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

More about grammar and the third line of the poem :~)




It's one of those words that if you speak it out loud often enough becomes something else entirely (squirrel is another one)

PLOD - definition : 

• To walk doggedly and slowly with heavy laborious steps
• To work slowly and perseveringly at a dull task
• Mr Plod the policeman in Enid Blytons stories about Noddy

First Known Use: 1562 (probably symbolic of a heavy gait)