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ploddings

ploddings is the plural of plodding.

Meaning of plodding

Noun

plodding (countable and uncountable, plural ploddings)

  1. Slow, laborious progress.
    • I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow / (Like plants in dungeons, reaching feelers out), / And ploddings wary and slow.1863, Jean Ingelow, “Honors”, in Poems

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Questions about ploddings

What is ploddings the plural of?
Ploddings is the plural of plodding.

Words near ploddings in the dictionary

  1. plodder
  2. plodders
  3. plodding
  4. ploddingly
  5. ploddingness
  6. ploddings
  7. ploddish
  8. ploddy
  9. Plodgate
  10. plodge
  11. plodged

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