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the sound a dream makes when it's carrying a heavy backpack.
means to walk or work slowly and heavily, with steady effort but little grace or speed.
from likely echoic in origin, mimicking the dull, heavy footfall it describes — english has used it since the 1500s for both trudging feet and the tedious grind of dogged labor.
triggera.a. milne named eeyore's creator 'plodding' pooh
cousin wordplodder emerged to mock the unglamorous grinder
sound matchonomatopoeic — say it and you hear boots