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trudge

noun
/tɹʌd͡ʒ/UK

Etymology

Mid-16th century. Original meaning was somewhat idiomatic, meaning "to walk using snowshoes." Probably of Scandinavian origin, compare Icelandic þrúga (“snowshoe”), Norwegian truga (“snowshoe”) and dialectal Swedish trudja (“snowshoe”).

  1. derived from trudja — “snowshoe”
  2. derived from þrúga — “snowshoe”

Definitions

  1. A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.

    • The morning after the landslip, with rain still pouring down, it was an unpleasant trudge through deep mud to get there.

  2. To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.

  3. To trudge along or over a route etc.

The neighborhood

Derived

trudger

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA