drudge

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person made to do hard, dull, or menial work

   He felt like a household drudge, cleaning from dawn until midnight.

2. 2
   verb

   to work hard at a monotonous or unpleasant task

   She drudged through years of repetitive clerical work.

Simplified etymology

Drudge, recorded from Middle English, may share a common Germanic heritage with drag, draw, draught, and dray, but the connection is uncertain.

From Middle English druggen ("to labor, toil"), perhaps related to Old English dreogan ("to perform, endure, suffer"). The noun developed from the verb for a person condemned to exhausting or servile work.

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