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Meanings of plodder in English

Catalan
cançoner
Spanish
simplón

Someone who moves slowly.

cançoner

Someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner.

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Examples for "slowpoke"
Examples for "slowpoke"
1
The slowpoke cast a furtive glance at the nearby entrance door.
Dark rivers of the heart
2
But first they have to get the little slowpoke up here.
Black house
3
In fact, it's going to be us slowpoke humans who really slow the process down.
Ashes Of Victory
4
I waited for her to call me "slowpoke" or "snail face" or something.
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
5
You rise from the monitor with a reckless, risky plan already congealing in your slowpoke brain.
Internecine
1
I am an old slowcoach, and your scheme makes me tremble.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
2
Ferreting is a business generally transacted without hustle, and the keeper was a noted slowcoach.
Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
3
What is more, it made Chris Tavaré up the other end look a bit of a slowcoach.
The Guardian
4
Come on, slowcoach, get moving, can't you?
Another life altogether: a novel
5
But in this new family animation Turbo, we see an evolutionary process in Hollywood's sentimental admiration for the slowcoach underdog.
The Guardian
1
But what do those stick-in-the-mud, living people know about modern convenience, huh?
Wired
2
Oh, you are getting to be an old man, you stick-in-the-mud.
Breeder
3
Even stick-in-the-mud lawyer Portia Bellefleur was peeking around her conservative beau to study Mickey.
Dead as a doornail
4
I was once a stick-in-the-mud Halloween refusenik.
The Guardian
5
Naomi and Ginny exchanged the sort of glances which culinary sophisticates exchange in the presence of stick-in-the-mud louts.
Crown of Slaves
Usage of plodder in English
1
He was what you might call a plodder-youmight call him that.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
2
There's nothing brilliant about me, dear-I'ma plodder, feeling my way along.
His Family
3
I couldn't see a flat-cap so I approached the nearest plodder.
Class of 88
4
Nevertheless, he was himself no plodder when plodding had ceased to be necessary.
Famous Americans of Recent Times
5
I realize this portrays you as the romantic figure and me as the plodder.
The story of edgar sawtelle
6
He could see Bronson working,-alwaysthe plodder, always the fool!
The Snowshoe Trail
7
Adam Bogardus was a plodder in the West as he had been in the East.
The Desert and the Sown
8
Maudette had been a plodder, never bright or ambitious.
Dead until dark
9
Now she was a plodder, her heart racing faster than her feet, her legs heavy.
Frankenstein: Lost Souls - A Novel
10
Yet I was rich, political life courted me; I was not the weary plodder of 1814.
The Lily of the Valley
11
Though we did not always know it, the faithful plodder was sure to win the heights.
A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
12
As poor plodder along the way of life, it were impossible for me to know content.
Friends and Neighbors; Or, Two Ways of Living in the World
13
Unimaginative, though, and a bit of a plodder.
The lady elizabeth
14
I am what one might call a plodder.
The Irish Times
15
But you're getting to be a regular plodder.
Frank Merriwell's Chums
16
He was conscientious and hard-working, but no plodder.
The Irish Times
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