Hypertext Webster Gateway: "drudgery"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drudgery \Drudg"er*y\, n.
The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor;
ignoble or slavish toil.
The drudgery of penning definitions. --Macaulay.
Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery
and with out sorrow. --Locke.
Syn: See {Toll}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
drudgery
n : hard monotonous routine work [syn: {plodding}, {grind}, {donkeywork}]
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