Plod vs Hotfoot - What's the difference?
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A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
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
the police, police officers
(UK, mildly, derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
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
(-)- We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod .
Verb
(plodd)- plodding schoolmen