different between plod vs fling

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pl?d/
• Rhymes: -?d, -??d

Etymology 1

From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plod (“a puddle”). Compare Dutch plodden, Dutch plodderen and Danish pladder (“mire”).

Noun

plod (uncountable)

1. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.

   We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.

Verb

plod (third-person singular simple present plods, present participle plodding, simple past and past participle plodded)

1. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 50,^[1]

     The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,

     Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island Part One, Chapter 1

     I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;

2. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
   • 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, p. 127,^[2]

     Quest[ion]. Where was Ioseph?

     Answ[er]. It may be, he was playing the Carpenter abrode for all their three livings, but sure it is, he was not idlely plodding the streetes, much lesse tipling in the Taverne with our idle swingers.

   • 1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451,^[3]

     […] Speed thou to Lombard-street,

     Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet,

     'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, London: The Richards Press, XLVI, pp. 69-70,^[4]

     Break no rosemary, bright with rime

     And sparkling to the cruel clime;

     Nor plod the winter land to look

     For willows in the icy brook

     To cast them leafless round him […]

3. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
   • 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,^[5]

     Poore plodding schoolemen, they are farre too low,

     which by probations, rules and axiom’s goe,

     He must be still familiar with the skyes,

     which notes the reuolutions of thine eyes;

Derived terms

• plodder
• plodding

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:plod.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).

Noun

plod (plural plods)

1. (obsolete) A puddle.

Etymology 3

From PC Plod.

Noun

plod (usually uncountable, plural plods)

1. (Britain, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
2. (Britain, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

Synonyms

• (the police): See Thesaurus:police
• (police officer): See Thesaurus:police officer

Translations

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plot/

Noun

plod m

1. fruit
2. fetus

Declension

Derived terms

• oplodí n

See also

• embryo
• zárodek
• ovoce

Further reading

• plod in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• plod in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Romanian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plod?

Noun

plod n (plural plozi)

1. (derogatory) small child
2. (colloquial) fetus

Declension

Further reading

• plod in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plô?d/

Noun

pl?d m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. fruit (part of plant)

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pló?t/

Noun

pl??d m inan

1. fruit (part of plant)

Inflection

Derived terms

• pl??den

Further reading

• “plod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English fling, from the verb (see below). Compare Icelandic flengur (“a fast sprint”).

Noun

fling (plural flings)

1. An act of throwing, often violently.
2. An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.

3. An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
   • 1838, Douglas William Jerrold, Men of Character

     When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure.
4. A short casual sexual relationship.

   Synonym: hookup

5. (figuratively) An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling").
6. (obsolete) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe or taunt.
   • c. 1732, Jonathan Swift, Epistle to a Lady

     I, who love to have a fling, / Both at senate house and king.

7. A lively Scottish country dance.

8. (obsolete) A trifling matter; an object of contempt.
   • ante 1800, old proverb

     England were but a fling / Save for the crooked stick and the grey goose wing.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English flingen, flengen, from Old Norse flengja (“to whip”), from Proto-Germanic *flangijan? (“to beat, whip”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?k- (“to beat”). Cognate with Icelandic flengja (“to spank”), Norwegian flengja (“to rip, tear, or fling open”).

Verb

fling (third-person singular simple present flings, present participle flinging, simple past flung or (colloquial or dialectal, nonstandard) flang or (nonstandard) flinged, past participle flung or (nonstandard) flinged)

1. (intransitive, now archaic) To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 113:

     I see, sir, said I, I see what a man I am with. […] And away I flung, leaving him seemingly vexed, and in confusion.

   • I flung closer to his breast, / As sword that, after battle, flings to sheath.

2. (transitive) To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
   • I know thy generous temper well. / Fling but the appearance of dishonour on it, / It straight takes fire.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To throw; to wince; to flounce.
   • 1836, Helen Crocket, The Ettrick Shepherd's Last Tale

     The horse flung most potently, making his heels fly aloft in the air.

4. (intransitive, archaic) To utter abusive language; to sneer.

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