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Plodder
Synonyms for "plodder" (41 found)
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Translations
16 translations across 7 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- мару́да noun (a person who works slowly)
French
2 entries- bâilleur noun (a person who works slowly)
- bâilleuse noun (a person who works slowly)
German
1 entries- Arbeitstier noun (a person who works slowly)
Māori
1 entries- waewae pakiaka noun (a person who works slowly)
Polish
4 entries- grzebuła noun (a person who works slowly)
- guzdrała noun (a person who works slowly)
- maruda noun (a person who works slowly)
- maruder noun (a person who works slowly)
Russian
3 entries- копу́н noun (a person who works slowly)
- копу́нья noun (a person who works slowly)
- копу́ша noun (a person who works slowly)
Walloon
2 entries- bezén noun (a person who works slowly)
- londjin noun (a person who works slowly)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
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
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1899, Pansy (pseudonym of Isabella Macdonald Alden), Three People, Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Chapter 21, p. 271, 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.
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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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