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Definition of Drudge

1. Noun. One who works hard at boring tasks.

2. Verb. Work hard. "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

3. Noun. A laborer who is obliged to do menial work.

Definition of Drudge

1. v. i. To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.

2. v. t. To consume laboriously; -- with away.

3. n. One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.

Definition of Drudge

1. Noun. A person who works in a low servile job. ¹

2. Noun. (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else. ¹

3. Verb. to labour in (or as in) a low servile job ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Drudge

1. to do hard, menial, or tedious work [v DRUDGED, DRUDGING, DRUDGES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drudge

drowsy drowth drowths droxicam droxidopa droyle droyled drub drubbed drubber

drubbers drubbing drubbings drubs drucken drudge (current term) drudged drudger drudgeries drudgers

drudgery drudges drudgework drudgey drudging drudgingly drudgism drudgisms drudgy drueries

Literary usage of Drudge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Various Writings of Cornelius Mathews by Cornelius Mathews (1863)
"reeling a withering glance towards Mr. drudge, who was slowly shambling up the lane completely ... drudge,— I want you to get in the carriage and go down to ..."

2. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"The older sense was to dirty, hence to drudge, from the dirt consequent on toil, j wurf, G. maulwurf. ..."

3. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1872)
"D- ^"2- ' even after my descent into the poor little drudge I had ' been since we came to London, no one had compassion ' enough on me—a child of singular ..."

4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... vn To act as a drudge, Aberd. Isl. l-lij'-i'i, sarcinas imponere, q. to make a beast of borden of one ; klip-a, ... A drudge, ibid. ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... her unfailing instinct for choosing the noble and liberal side in a controversy, to prevent her from becoming every man's drudge —a mere literary besom. ..."

6. The Freshman and His College: A College Manual by Frank Cummins Lockwood (1913)
"VI THE GOOD drudge HABIT The habits that a Freshman forms are likely to go with him all through life to help him or to hinder him. ..."

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