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Plod vs Slouch - What's the difference?

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Plod is a related term of slouch.


In lang=en terms the difference between plod and slouch

is that plod is to trudge over or through while slouch is to walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.

As nouns the difference between plod and slouch

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 slouch is a hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance.

As verbs the difference between plod and slouch

is that plod is to walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over) while slouch is to hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture.

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

    slouch

    English

    Noun

  • A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
    • He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch .
  • any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
    • The plant hung in a permanent slouch .
  • someone who is slow to act
  • * 2014 , Ian Jack, " Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian , 16 September 2014:
    • In any case, Scotland has been no slouch at national invention. The Greek temple to commemorate James Thomson wasn’t the only monument raised by the 11th Earl of Buchan, who was a friend and neighbour of Walter Scott, and as great a romancer in his obsession with ruins, battlements and fancy dress.
  • (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

    • Derived terms

    * slouch hat

    Verb

  • To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
    • Do not slouch when playing a flute.
  • To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
    • I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.

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