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DRUDGINGLY

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drudge

  [druhj] noun, verb, drudged, drudg⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
2. a person who works in a routine, unimaginative way.
–verb (used without object)
3. to perform menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
Origin:
1485–95; cf. OE man's name Drycghelm helmet maker, equiv. to drycg (akin to drēogan to work) + helm helm 2

Related forms:
drudger, noun
drudg⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
3. toil, hack, grub, plod, slave.
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drudge 1   (drŭj)   
n.  A person who does tedious, menial, or unpleasant work.
intr.v.   drudged, drudg·ing, drudg·es
To do tedious, unpleasant, or menial work.

[From Middle English druggen, to labor; akin to Old English drēogan, to work, suffer.]
drudg'er n., drudg'ing·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

drudge  (n.)
1494, "one employed in mean, servile, or distasteful work," missing in O.E. and M.E., but apparently related to O.E. dreogan "to work, suffer, endure." The verb is from 1548. Drudgery is from 1550.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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