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plodder

WordNet
  1. (n) plodder
    someone who moves slowly "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"
  2. (n) plodder
    someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours
  3. (n) plodder
    someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Plodder
    One who plods; a drudge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) plodder
    One who trudges or wanders about; a “moss-trooper.”
  2. (n) plodder
    One who plods; a drudge; a dull, laborious person.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Plodder
    one who plods on: a dull, heavy, laborious man
Quotations
I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and that the answers are on a certain page.
Clarence Linder
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Orig. 'to wade through pools,' from Ir. plod, a pool.

Usage in the news

It's hardly that Haydn was a plodder who responds to plodding interprtetations. nytimes.com

The Reverend William Thornton who blogs on Southern Baptist Convention issues under the title SBC Plodder is the man. forbes.com

Usage in literature

He was a quiet fellow, a plodder at his work, and without great ambitions. "Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road" by R. Henry Mainer

When I remember that these poor plodders have never had a chance, I relent and feel so sorry and so hopeless. "An Anarchist Woman" by Hutchins Hapgood

And she passed examinations without effort under circumstances where plodders would have courted disaster. "Athalie" by Robert W. Chambers

The day of the steady plodder is past; it's all hustle, even in medicine. "The Seven Secrets" by William Le Queux

For he was, in his own eyes, a humble plodder, not in the swim at all. "Somehow Good" by William de Morgan

He makes money, Mrs. Planter, too fast to bother with an old plodder like me. "The Guarded Heights" by Wadsworth Camp

He is one of those sly, slaving plodders, without a touch of ability. "The Call of the Town" by John Alexander Hammerton

They were plodders and not really in our class. "The Tent Dwellers" by Albert Bigelow Paine

But after all he's only a plodder. ""Pip"" by Ian Hay

Still, he was more than a plodder. "The Lost Wagon" by James Arthur Kjelgaard