Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over). · To trudge over or through. · To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. · To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”).
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