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Meanings of slogger in inglês

Someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner.

A boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches.

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Examples for "plodder"
Examples for "plodder"
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
1
We were now five mounted men and a trudger afoot.
1492
2
He really is a very good trudger.
Flash and Bones
3
He had merely humored a whim to walk through orchards and green fields in a leisurely fashion, to be a careless trudger for a day.
Burned Bridges
Usage of slogger in inglês
1
Two negroes, including the slogger, fell to him in his first over.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 / An Illustrated Month...
2
The slogger pulls up at last for a moment, fairly blown.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
3
Once called a dirty slogger, the stats tell a different story.
Radio NZ
4
Not bad at all for a man who five years earlier was a tail-end slogger called Pieterson.
The Guardian
5
A slogger came in next, and made runs rather rapidly, but nothing much happened until the Fourth Officer's third over.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 / An Illustrated Month...
6
Gary Naylor: I obviously hope Pollard is OK, but what a joy to read of the bouncer sorting out the slogger.
The Guardian
7
Loud shouts rise from the boys of slogger's house, and the school-house are silent and vicious, ready to pick quarrels anywhere.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
8
A short rally at close quarters, and they close: in another moment the slogger is thrown again heavily for the third time.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
9
But now that he had broken down just in the middle of all the long words, the slogger's wrath was fairly roused.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
10
In fact, half the vice of the slogger's hitting is neutralized, for he daren't lunge out freely for fear of exposing his sides.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
11
After another round the slogger too seems to see that he can't go in and win right off, and has met his match or thereabouts.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
12
That's where Notre Pere will come into his own and it's not as if the giant eight-year-old can be dismissed as a mere slogger either.
The Irish Times
13
For an instant Burke the Slogger saw the glaring of a red lamp.
Condensed Novels
14
Constance must not arrive; Burke the Slogger must attend to that.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales / With Condensed Novels...
15
The road at any time was covered with tired foot sloggers.
Adventures of a Despatch Rider
16
The heavily committed eight-hour-a-day sloggers would need only half that.
The Irish Times
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