Plod vs Perambulate - 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.
To walk about, roam or stroll.
To inspect (an area) on foot.
In intransitive terms the difference between plod and perambulate
is that plod is to walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over) while perambulate is to walk about, roam or stroll.In transitive terms the difference between plod and perambulate
is that plod is to trudge over or through while perambulate is to inspect (an area) on foot.As a noun plod
is a slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.plod
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *.Noun
(-)- We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod .
Verb
(plodd)- plodding schoolmen
