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Drudgery

//ˈdɹʌd͡ʒəɹi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Exhausting, menial, and tedious work. countable, uncountable

    "What laier much better then there, / or cheaper (thereon to doo well?) / What drudgerie more any where / lesse good thereof where can ye tell? / What gotten by Sommer is seene: / in Winter is eaten vp cleene."

  2. 2
    hard monotonous routine work wordnet

Etymology

From drudge (“person who works in a low servile job”) + -ery (suffix meaning ‘the art, craft, or practice of’ forming nouns).

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