plodding

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of plod

adj

  1. Progressing slowly and laboriously.

noun

  1. Slow, laborious progress.
    I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow / (Like plants in dungeons, reaching feelers out), / And ploddings wary and slow. 1863, Jean Ingelow, “Honors”, in Poems

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