Hypertext Webster Gateway: "drudge"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drudge \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drudge \Drudge\, v. t.
To consume laboriously; -- with away.
Rise to our toils and drudge away the day. --Otway.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drudge \Drudge\, n.
One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a
mental servant. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
drudge
n 1: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: {hack}, {hacker}]
2: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: {peon}, {navvy},
{galley slave}]
v : work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: {labor}, {labour},
{toil}, {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {dig}, {moil}]
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