Hypertext Webster Gateway: "drudging"
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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
drudging
adj : doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the
bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling
coal miners in the black deeps" [syn: {laboring}, {labouring},
{toiling}]
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