drudge
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8.1
- noun
- /drʌdʒ/
:
trabajador
- Many workers see their daily commute as a drudge, filled with uninteresting routines.
As well as being exhausted, I felt nothing more than a drudge.
- As well as being exhausted, I felt nothing more than a drudge.
Examples
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Otherwise it's a drudge.
Academic text (2009) -
There are also 825 normal folk, drudges and geniuses alike, whose names, since graduating, have appeared once or, more likely, not at all.
Fiction book (1991) -
I used to love blogging and had a relatively large following, but it became a drudge to me.
Blog text (2) -
When I was married, I was a skiv, a drudge.
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I say if you can't share the drudge work, you don't get to share in the good stuff.
Blog text (14) -
Full-time drudge.
Fiction book (1999) -
He felt like a drudge as he spent hours doing repetitive tasks in the factory.
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She complained about her job, calling it a drudge because of the monotonous tasks involved.
Synonyms
77
7.5
A person who does dull, routine work, especially writing
13
8.5
A person who does low-paid, unskilled work
1
6.5
A person who works slowly and steadily without much energy or imagination
1
9.9
A person forced to row a ship as a slave, often meaning someone who does very hard work
1
9.8
A person who does dirty, simple work or acts roughly
A person who keeps working for long hours at boring tasks
How Menial
Surface Forms
Etymology
Drudge names someone who does hard, boring work for a long time. A helpful way to remember it is to think of trudge, which means 'to walk slowly and tiredly'—a drudge 'trudges' through dull tasks. That's why drudge means a person who does long, repetitive, simple work.