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UK
/plˈɒdɐ/
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NOUN
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someone who moves slowly
in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach - someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours
- someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner
How To Use plodder In A Sentence
- Character, narrative, plot - only a dogged, dull-witted plodder like Malcolm Lodgebury bothers with that sort of stuff now.
- He was a kind of plodder, though, good fellow as he was. The Four Million
- He was quiet, conscientious, a bit of a plodder.
- And others of them have said that he was an industrious plodder rather than an original thinker. Chapter 37
- Must agree with Jim that this was a ‘plodder’ of a story. BLOSSOMS WEEP, SPIDERS FALL • by A.R. Williams
- He was what you might call a plodder -- you might call him that. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
- The difference between him, that plodder, and me, the brilliant multi-tasker, is that I might have looked busier as I frantically shuffled through papers and tapped computer keys and shouted into my cell phone. While typing this post I am closing six business deals, translating a poem by Neruda, preparing a complicated sauce for our dinner tonight, and changing the oil on my car
- It took me one ball to go from 99 to my century," Cook the plodder grins. Alastair Cook: Who wouldn't want to captain England's Test team?
- I mean, my Emily was always a bit of a plodder...' But Emily was still there. LOST CHILDREN
- Alongside the plodders skipped and ran, rushed back and forth the younger, frivolous characters, kicking up their heels, biting at one another, or lowering their horns in short mimic charges -- gay, animated flankers to the main army. The Leopard Woman