Word Meanings - PLODDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who plods; a drudge.

Related words: (words related to PLODDER)

• DRUDGER
  1. One who drudges; a drudge. 2. A dredging box.
• DRUDGE
  To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.
• DRUDGERY
  The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke. Syn. -- See Toll.
• ENDRUDGE
  To make a drudge or slave of. Bp. Hall.