drudge
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English druggen, which is possibly related to Old English drēogan (“to do; to suffer”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drudge (plural drudges)
- A person who works in a low servile job.
- drudge work
- (derogatory) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
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Translations edit
person who works in a low job
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person who works for someone else
Verb edit
drudge (third-person singular simple present drudges, present participle drudging, simple past and past participle drudged)
- (intransitive) To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.
- 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd:
- Rise to our Toils and drudge away the day.
- 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
- He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged.
Translations edit
to labour as in a low servile job
References edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “drudge”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.