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drudge

UK/dɹʌd͡ʒ/ US/ˈdrʌdʒ/ uncommon
noun (2) verb (1)

noun

1.

one who works hard at boring tasks

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2.

a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

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verb

1.

work hard

  • “She was digging away at her math homework”
  • “Lexicographers drudge all day long”
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Origin

From Middle English druggen, perhaps from Old English *dryċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *druggjan, from Proto-Germanic *drugjaną, a denominative built to a lost noun *drugjaz (preserved in Old English Dryċġhelm), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-; compare Old English drēogan (“to do; to suffer”).

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