Plod vs Scurry - What's the difference?
plod | scurry | Related terms |
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 run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
* 1964 ,
Plod is a related term of scurry.
As verbs the difference between plod and scurry
is that plod is to walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over) while scurry is to run away with quick light steps, to scamper.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
(-)- We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod .
Verb
(plodd)- plodding schoolmen
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (English Citations of "plod")Etymology 2
From (etyl) plod. Cognate with (etyl) .Etymology 3
From (PC Plod)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (the police) see * (police officer) seescurry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
