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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.
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Drudge
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Origin:
1485–95; compare OE man's name Drycghelm helmet maker, equivalent to drycg (akin to drēogan to work) + helm helm2
1485–95; compare OE man's name Drycghelm helmet maker, equivalent to drycg (akin to drēogan to work) + helm helm2
Related forms
drudg·er, noun
drudg·ing·ly, adverb
Synonyms
3. toil, hack, grub, plod, slave.
3. toil, hack, grub, plod, slave.
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Example Sentences
- Drudge presumably could have come only from grand jury members, court reporters or members of the prosecutor's staff.
- If the drudge work of grading/feedback isn't that much a part of teaching.
- Who becomes royal and who a drudge depends on who gets fed with a fantabulous substance called royal jelly.
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Word Origin & History
drudge
late 15c., "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 1540s.
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