Meaning of DRUDGE
| Pronunciation: | | druj
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- [n] a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
- [n] one who works hard at boring tasks
- [v] work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
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| | Synonyms: | | dig, fag, galley slave, grind, hack, hacker, labor, labour, moil, navvy, peon, toil, travail |
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| | See Also: | | do work, jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer, plodder, slogger, unskilled person, work | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Drudge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drudged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Drudging}.] [OE. druggen; prob not akin to E. drag, v. t.,
but fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. drugaire a slave or drudge.]
To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant
offices with toil and fatigue.
He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers
for whom he drudged. --Macaulay.
\Drudge\, v. t.
To consume laboriously; -- with away.
Rise to our toils and drudge away the day. --Otway.
\Drudge\, n.
One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a
mental servant. --Milton.
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| | Related Terms: | | administer to, attend, attend on, be busy, beast of burden, care for, chore, dance attendance upon, dig, do for, do service to, domestic, domestic servant, donkeywork, dray horse, drudgery, fag, galley slave, greasy grind, grind, grub, grubber, hack, hammer, hammer away, help, hireling, keep doggedly at, labor, lackey, look after, maid, menial, mercenary, minister to, moil, muck, pander to, peg, peg away, peon, plod, plodder, plow, plug, plug along, plug at, plug away, plugging, pound, pound away, scullion, servant, serve, servitor, slave, slavery, slavey, slog, slog away, slogger, swot, take care of, tend, toil, toiler, travail, turnspit, upon, valet, wade through, wait, wait on, work, work away, work for, workhorse |
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