drudgery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.

   What laier much better then there, / or cheaper (thereon to doo well?) / What drudgerie more any where / lesse good thereof where can ye tell? / What gotten by Sommer is seene: / in Winter is eaten vp cleene.

2. 2
   noun

   hard monotonous routine work

Etymology

From drudge (“person who works in a low servile job”) + -ery (suffix meaning ‘the art, craft, or practice of’ forming nouns).