plodder

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noun laggard

noun. slave, very hard worker

noun. person who does easy work for money

noun. laggard

1560s, of uncertain origin, perhaps imitative of the sound of walking heavily or slowly. Related: Plodded; plodding.

I have not been the better for it; I was getting on faster while I was merely a plodder.

He and Mira were at breakfast and Mrs. Plodder had come to help.

He was what you might call a plodder—you might call him that.

This contempt for the plodder extends also to the scholastic sphere.

It used to be asserted of Plodder that he was figuring for the Signal Corps.

It was not only in the regiment that Plodder became a notoriety.

Plodder's cautionary signal had been hoisted to some purpose after all.

Under these circumstances, Plodder was not the man to hesitate.

No plodder ever kept more closely to the safe and beaten path.

And if I do not kill my people it is because I have no originality, I am a plodder, a second-rate man!