Plodded vs Tottered - What's the difference?
plodded | tottered |
(plod)
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.
(totter)
To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (archaic) To collect junk or scrap.
As verbs the difference between plodded and tottered
is that plodded is (plod) while tottered is (totter).plodded
English
Verb
(head)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) seetottered
English
Verb
(head)totter
English
Verb
(en verb)Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter , slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
