different between cripple vs plodder

English

Alternative forms

• creeple (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep +? -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??pl/
• Rhymes: -?p?l

Adjective

cripple (not comparable)

1. (now rare, dated) Crippled.
   • 1599 — William Shakespeare, Henry V, iv 1

     And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.

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Noun

cripple (plural cripples)

1. (sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

   He returned from war a cripple.

   • I am […] a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.

2. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
3. (dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) scrapple.
4. (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.

Synonyms

• disabled person

Derived terms

• Cripple Creek
• emotional cripple

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Verb

cripple (third-person singular simple present cripples, present participle crippling, simple past and past participle crippled)

1. to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired

   The car bomb crippled five passers-by.

2. (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy

3. (figuratively) to cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally
   • 2019, Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, I Don't Care

     With all these people all around / I'm crippled with anxiety / But I'm told it's where I'm s'posed to be.
4. to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

   The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.

5. (slang, video games) to nerf something which is overpowered

Synonyms

• (cause physical disability): see Thesaurus:disable
• (seriously damage): see Thesaurus:destroy or Thesaurus:harm
• (release with reduced functionality): limit, restrict

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See also

• disfigurement
• lame
• paralysis
• disability

Anagrams

• clipper

English

Etymology

From Middle English plodder, equivalent to plod +? -er.

Noun

plodder (plural plodders)

1. One who plods.
   • 1842, Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, London: Frederick Warne, 1888, p. 18,^[1]

     Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats,

     Grave old plodders, gay young friskers […]

2. A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act I, Scene 1,^[2]

     Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun

     That will not be deep-search’d with saucy looks:

     Small have continual plodders ever won

     Save base authority from others' books

   • 1899, Pansy (pseudonym of Isabella Macdonald Alden), Three People, Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Chapter 21, p. 271,^[3]

     What an indefatigable plodder you are to get those papers ready so soon, and an unmerciful man besides to make me go over them to-night.

   • 1939, Robert James Manion, Life is an Adventure, Toronto: Ryerson Press, Part Two, II, p. 43,^[4]

     Throughout my life […] I have been fortified in the conclusion that it is much more important for a young man to be a worker, even though not brilliant, than to be brilliant and not a worker. As one looks back at some companions who attended lectures, and follows the records of their lives, one is strengthened in this belief because the facts show that the steady plodders have gone further than have some of those brilliant lads of other days.

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