Drudge

//dɹʌd͡ʒ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who works in a low servile job. also, attributive

    "drudge work"

  2. 2
    a laborer who is obliged to do menial work wordnet
  3. 3
    Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else. derogatory
  4. 4
    one who works hard at boring tasks wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To labour in (or as in) a low servile job. intransitive

    "Rise to our Toils and drudge away the day."

  2. 2
    work hard wordnet

Synonyms

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hacklaborpeonadminister toapplyattend

Example

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"Rise to our Toils and drudge away the day."

Etymology

From Middle English druggen, perhaps from Old English *dryċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *druggjan, from Proto-Germanic *drugjaną, a denominative built to a lost noun *drugjaz (preserved in Old English Dryċġhelm), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-; compare Old English drēogan (“to do; to suffer”).

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