Thing Not To Do Today: trudge.

Trudge is a lovely word: you can almost hear the effort of every step as the mud reluctantly releases its hold on your boots, the heaviness of your tired legs, and the resentment of your mind as you make your unwilling slow progress.

Trudge trudge trudge...

Still, as a comfort, when the word trudge was first used in English, it looks as if trudging was even more difficult.

So cheer up, do.

Thing Not To Do Today: trudge. The origin of the word trudge is obscure, but in the mid 1500s it meant to walk in snowshoes. 


Man trudging along in the Coup de Matelot Valley in Canada. Photo by 0x010C

There's a Swedish dialect word trudja which means showshoe, which looks very much as if it must be connected to our own word trudge.