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Plodder

noun
1.
Someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner.  Synonyms: slogger, trudger.
2.
Someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours.  Synonym: slogger.
3.
Someone who moves slowly.  Synonyms: slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud.






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"Plodder" Quotes from Famous Books



... discovered the truth. A sense of something greater than he had yet known in life seemed to lift him into some lofty state of aloofness, from which he could look down and despise himself, the poor, tired plodder wearing the heavy chains of duty. There was a life so much more wonderful, just the other side of the clouds, a very short distance away, a life of alluring and passionate happiness. Should he ever find the courage, he wondered, to escape from the treadmill and ...
— The Zeppelin's Passenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... Destiny that caused the turn in Amarilly's fate-tide came one morning when, in her capacity as assistant to the scrub ladies at the Barlow Stock Theatre, she viewed for the first time the dress rehearsal of A Terrible Trial. Heretofore the patient little plodder had found in her occupation only the sordid satisfaction of drawing her wages, but now the resplendent costumes, the tragedy in the gestures of the villain, the languid grace of Lord Algernon, and the haughty treble of the leading lady struck the spark that fired ambition ...
— Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley • Belle K. Maniates

... another feature to the tidal wave of four hundred thousand immigrants a year. The American is a born pioneer, a born gambler, a born adventurer. The Englishman is a steady-going, dogged-as-does-it plodder. The American will risk two dollars on the chance of making ten dollars; he often loses the two dollars, and he often makes the ten dollars; from his general prosperity, I should say the latter results oftener than the former; but the American never in the least minds blazing ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut



Words linked to "Plodder" :   laggard, drudge, slowpoke, trailer, hack, drone, pedestrian, footer, slogger, hacker, walker, trudger, stick-in-the-mud, dawdler, lagger, plod, poke



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