PLODDALL NOUN a dull or commonplace person; a plodder, a person who works slowly and laboriously ...1618 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY of uncertain origin. OED suggests it comes from the verb, 'plod' (to work steadily and laboriously, or in a stolid or monotonous fashion) + -all, after similar constructions such as 'spend-all', etc. First Documented Use 1618 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...for linnen is ware for milke-maides; Perpetuana is for Pedants, and Atturnies clarkes; and Durance would be thought an excellent weare in some Virgins petticoates. Euery plaine Ploddall will haue a veluet neck-peece, and euery old Bawd, will haue her heeles garded with sparkes of sattin..." From: The Owles Almanacke - Published by Edward Griffin for Laurence Lisle
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