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Plod vs Lop - What's the difference?

plod | lop |

As verbs the difference between plod and lop

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

As a noun 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.

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

    lop

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Geordie) A flea.
    • (Cleveland)
    Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops

    References

    * * * * * * * *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) loppe.

    Verb

    (lopp)
  • (usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
  • To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
  • To allow to hang down.
    • to lop the head
    Synonyms
    * (to cut off)
    Derived terms
    * lopper, loppers

    See also

    * defalcate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Mortimer)

    References

    *

    Etymology 3

    from lopsided.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, slang) A disabled person, a cripple.
  • * 1935 : Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men , p5
    • "He's a lop ; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."
  • Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

    • See also

    * lob

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l), (l) ---- ==Franco-Provençal==

    Noun

  • wolf
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