Plodder

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Plodder \Plod"der\, n.
     One who plods; a drudge.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  plodder
       n 1: someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner [syn: {trudger},
             {slogger}]
       2: someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours
          [syn: {slogger}]
       3: someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a
          slowcoach" [syn: {slowpoke}, {stick-in-the-mud}, {slowcoach}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "plodder":
     beast of burden, dawdle, dawdler, drone, drudge, fag, foot-dragger,
     galley slave, goldbrick, goof-off, greasy grind, grind, grub, hack,
     laggard, lie-abed, lingerer, loiterer, procrastinator, slave,
     sleepyhead, slogger, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke,
     slug, sluggard, snail, stick-in-the-mud, swot, tortoise,
     workhorse