different between plod vs scoot
plod
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)
- 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)
- (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;
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 50,[1]
- (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 […]
- 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, p. 127,[2]
- 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;
- 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,[5]
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)
- (obsolete) A puddle.
Etymology 3
From PC Plod.
Noun
plod (usually uncountable, plural plods)
- (Britain, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
- (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
- fruit
- 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)
- (derogatory) small child
- (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 ?????)
- fruit (part of plant)
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plod?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pló?t/
Noun
pl??d m inan
- fruit (part of plant)
Inflection
Derived terms
- pl??den
Further reading
- “plod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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scoot
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sku?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
Etymology 1
Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to shoot”), or perhaps related to Middle English scottlynge (“moving one's feet quickly, scampering”, literally “scuttling”), see scuddle, scuttle.
Noun
scoot (plural scoots)
- (slang) A dollar.
- (slang) a scooter.
- A sideways shuffling or sliding motion.
Verb
scoot (third-person singular simple present scoots, present participle scooting, simple past and past participle scooted)
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (intransitive) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily.
- They scooted over to the window.
- (intransitive) To ride on a scooter.
- (of an animal) To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end.
- The dog was scooting all over our new carpet.
- (intransitive) To move sideways (especially along a seat for multiple people), usually to make room for someone else (to sit, stand, etc.).
- Do you mind scooting a bit to the left?
- (transitive) To dispatch someone or something at speed.
- 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, Prout's Lovely Black Eye
- He scooted us out of the study and turned off the light […]
- 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, Prout's Lovely Black Eye
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:scoot.
Derived terms
- scoot over
Translations
Etymology 2
Variant of shoot.
Verb
scoot (third-person singular simple present scoots, present participle scooting, simple past and past participle scooted)
- (Scotland, transitive) To squirt.
Noun
scoot (plural scoots)
- (Scotland) A sudden flow of water; a squirt.
Anagrams
- Cotos, Scoto-, coost, coots, costo-, cotso, scoto-, tocos
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