drudge (noun)
1drudge — ► NOUN ▪ a person made to do hard, menial, or dull work. ORIGIN of unknown origin; perhaps related to DRAG(Cf. ↑drag) …
2drudge — [ drʌdʒ ] noun count someone who has to do a lot of boring and unpleasant work …
3drudge — noun (C) someone who does hard boring work drudge verb (I) …
4drudge — noun a person made to do hard, menial, or dull work. verb archaic do hard, menial, or dull work. Derivatives drudgery noun Origin ME: of unknown origin; perh. related to drag …
5drudge — UK [drʌdʒ] / US noun [countable] Word forms drudge : singular drudge plural drudges someone who has to do a lot of boring and unpleasant work …
6drudge — [15] No one is quite sure where drudge comes from. It is first recorded, as a noun, towards the end of the 15th century, and the verb followed about fifty years later. One possible source may be the Middle English verb drugge ‘pull laboriously’,… …
7drudge — 1. noun a household drudge Syn: menial worker, slave, lackey, servant, laborer, worker, cog; informal gofer, runner, bottle washer, serf 2. verb, archaic he drudged in the fields See …
8drudge — [15] No one is quite sure where drudge comes from. It is first recorded, as a noun, towards the end of the 15th century, and the verb followed about fifty years later. One possible source may be the Middle English verb drugge ‘pull laboriously’,… …
9drudge — I. verb (drudged; drudging) Etymology: Middle English druggen Date: 14th century intransitive verb to do hard, menial, or monotonous work transitive verb to force to do hard, menial, or monotonous work • drudger noun II …
10drudge — /drʌdʒ / (say druj) noun 1. someone who labours at servile or uninteresting tasks; a hard toiler. –verb (i) (drudged, drudging) 2. to perform servile, distasteful, or hard work. {? Middle English drugge drag, pull heavily, Old English dreōgan… …
