| plodder | (n) someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours, Syn. slogger |
| plodder | (n) someone who moves slowly, Syn. slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, slowcoach, Example: in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach |
| plodding | (n) the act of walking with a slow heavy gait, Syn. plod, Example: I could recognize his plod anywhere |
| ploddingly | (adv) in a plodding manner, Example: this writer ploddingly accumulates detail after detail |
| drudgery | (n) hard monotonous routine work, Syn. grind, plodding, donkeywork |
| leaden | (adj) (of movement) slow and laborious, Syn. plodding, Example: leaden steps |
| trudger | (n) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner, Syn. plodder, slogger |
