serfitude

English

Etymology

From serf, perhaps influenced by servitude.

Noun

serfitude (uncountable)

1. (rare) Synonym of serfdom (“the condition of being a serf”)
   • 1985, Joe Adamson, The Walter Lantz Story: With Woody Woodpecker and Friends, Putnam Adult:

     The talk in their little hamlet in the province of Cosenza, where the Lanzas had been known for generations for their fine castile soap, played up America as a place where accidents of birth didn't doom you to a lifetime of serfitude […]

   • (Can we date this quote?), Robert Winthrop Curley, So Far Out That He's In: Opinions from an Opinionated Journalist, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 274:

     Before you know it you are twitterpated and on your way to 30 years of “serfitude” working morn and night to refill a refrigerator that is the favorite meeting place ofa half-dozen fat locusts with thyroid conditions.