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Plod vs Hotfoot - What's the difference?

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Plod is a related term of hotfoot.


As nouns the difference between plod and hotfoot

is that plod is a slow or labored walk or other motion or activity or plod can be (obsolete) a puddle or plod can be the police, police officers while hotfoot is (us) the prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.

As a verb plod

is to walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).

As an adverb hotfoot is

(british) hastily; without delay.

plod

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) *.

Noun

(-)
  • A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
  • We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod .

    Verb

    (plodd)
  • To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) Part One, Chapter 1
  • ** I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;
  • To trudge over or through.
  • To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
  • * Drayton
  • plodding schoolmen
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (English Citations of "plod")

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) plod. Cognate with (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A puddle.
  • Etymology 3

    From (PC Plod)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • the police, police officers
  • (UK, mildly, derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
  • Synonyms
    * (the police) see * (police officer) see

    hotfoot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.
  • Adverb

    (head)
  • (British) hastily; without delay.
  • Derived terms

    * hotfoot it

    Anagrams

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