trudge

What it means

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.

   2020 September 9, Paul Clifton, “Heavy rainfall causes landslip in Hampshire: At the scene...”, in Rail, page 10

In a sentence

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

2020 September 9, Paul Clifton, “Heavy rainfall causes landslip in Hampshire: At the scene...”, in Rail, page 10

Where it comes from

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”).