Drudge

Definition: Drudge

Drudge

Noun

1. One who works hard at boring tasks.

2. A laborer who is obliged to do menial work.

Verb

1. Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "drudge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Drudge

Agent

Workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, roustabout.

Exertion

Labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply the oar, tug at the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar

Crosswords: Drudge

The Drudge (1914)

Drudge (1998)

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Books

• Från tjänstehjon till hembiträde : en kvinnlig låglönegrupp i den fackliga kampen 1903-1946 = [From household drudge to domestic servant : the struggles of a group of poorly-paid women trade-unionists, 1903-46] (reference)

• Muse and Drudge (reference)

  (more book examples)

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But whether this be from a true love of mankind and society, and such a charity as we owe all one to another, there is reason to doubt: for this is no more than what every man, who loves his own power, profit, or greatness, may and naturally must do, keep those animals from hurting, or destroying one another, who labour and drudge only for his pleasure and advantage; and so are taken care of, not out of any love the master has for them, but love of himself, and the profit they bring him: for if it be asked, what security, what fence is there, in such a state, against the violence and oppression of this absolute ruler? the very question can scarce be borne. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Emma guessed him to be the drudge of some attorney, and too stupid to rise

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Expression using "drudge": drudge away at smth.. Additional references.

Albanian

rropatem (flounder), robtohem, njeri që robotohet, njeri që punon rëndë, hamall (coolie, loader, lumper, porter, redcap, roustabout, stevedore). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كدح (drudgery, elbow grease, fag, grub, hard work, labor, labour, moil, plod, proletarianize, slave, slavery, slog, sweat, sweat blood, swot, toil, travail, work hard), ‏الكادح (fag, grub, grubber, laborer, labourer, peon, slave, slogger), ‏العامل بجدية, ‏أكرهه على الكدح. (various references)

Bulgarian 

работя като роб (slave), върша черна работа, върша тежка работа, върша неблагодарна работа. (various references)

Czech

dříè (grind, hard worker, toiler), otrok (bondslave, helot, slave, thrall, vassal). (various references)

Finnish

tehdä työtä kuin orja (slave), raataja, raataa (grind away, slave away, toil). (various references)

French

trimer, peiner, bête de somme. (various references)

German

schuften (graft, grind away, plod, slave away, to drudge, to toil, toil). (various references)

Greek 

δουλεύω σκληρά (beaver, slave). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעבו�" בפרך (slave, slog). (various references)

Hungarian

robotol (to fag, to slave, to sweat), robot (automaton, corvee, plodding, robot, socage, sweat, swelter). (various references)

Indonesian

orang yang bekerja keras, membanting-tulang (plod, plug, scrabble). (various references)

Italian

sgobbone (grind, slogger, swot), sgobbare (cram, dig, grind, grind away, oxes, plug away, slave, slog, sweat, swot, work hard), servo (menial), schiavo (slave, thrall). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

がり勉 (a drudge, a grind, creak, feel, squeak), 我利勉 (a drudge, a grind). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がりべ�" (a drudge, a grind). (various references)

Manx

tooilleil (donkey-work, drudgery, fatigue, laboriousness, labour, tire, tiresomeness, toil, travail, weary; wearying; elbow grease), dreih (miserable creature, pitiful person, wretch). (various references)

Pig Latin

udgedray.(various references)

Portuguese

trabalhar duro (toil), mourejar-se, burro-de-carga. (various references)

Romanian

trudi (fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, sweat, toil, torture, weary), roboti (toil), rab, muncã neplãcutã (drudgery), hamal (carrier, dock laborer, dock labourer, lader, porter, red cap), face muncã de corvoadã, corvoadã (dirty work, drudgery, fag, fatigue duty, plod, swelter), chinui (agonize, bait, bore, fester, grill, harass, Harrow, Harry, lacerate, martyr, martyrize, mortify, overdrive, persecute, pinch, plague, prey, prick, rack, slave, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, try, worry, wring). (various references)

Russian 

выполнять тяжелую работу. (various references)

Scottish

tr� ill (a slave, slave), luid (rag, ragged slovenly one). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

radnik za teške poslove, raditi teške poslove. (various references)

Spanish

trabajar como un esclavo (grind away, slave), ganapán, esclavo del trabajo, esclava (bondmaid, slave), afanarse (slog, strive, toil, travail). (various references)

Swedish

arbetsträl (grub, hustler). (various references)

Thai

ทำงานหนัก (grub, labor, labour), คนที่ทำงานหนัก. (various references)

Turkish

köle gibi çalışmak (slave, work like a nigger), köle (bond slave, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, chattel, chattel slave, contraband, helot, mameluke, man friday, minion, serf, servile, slave, thrall), ağır işte çalışan kimse, ağır iş yapmak (grub), ağır iş (drudgery, gruelling, hard work, moil, plodding, slavery, taskwork). (various references)

Ukrainian

тяжка, нудна робота (drudgery), трудяга, трудитися (labor, labour, work). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thân trâu ngựa (hewer), người lao dịch, nô lệ. (various references)

Welsh

slaf (slave). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "drudge": drudged, drudger, drudgeries, drudgers, drudgery, drudges. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Drudge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Crudge, Dorridge, dridge, druage, drude, drudg, drudgy, drugde, druge, drumgor, Durdle, durge, krudge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dured, udder, urged.

-2 letters: dreg, drug, dude, dure, grue, gude, redd, rudd, rude, rued, urge.

-3 letters: dud, due, dug, erg, ged, red, reg, rue, rug, urd.

-4 letters: de, ed, er, re.

+1 letter: drudged, drudger, drudges, drugged, grudged, guarded, trudged.

+2 letters: drudgers, drudgery, grounded, rejudged, underdog, undergod, ungirded, ungraded, upgirded, upgraded.

+3 letters: bedrugged, begrudged, desugared, detruding, draughted, forjudged, graduated, guardedly, guerdoned, juddering, prejudged, redargued, unbridged, underdogs, undergird, undergods, undergrad, unguarded.

+4 letters: daundering, defrauding, disfigured, drudgeries, forejudged, outdragged, redounding, roughdried, ruggedized, shuddering, unabridged, underdoing, undergirds, undergrads, ungrounded.

+5 letters: deregulated, discouraged, disgruntled, dreadnought, goddaughter, guardedness, lifeguarded, safeguarded, superadding, undergirded, underground, undersigned, unguardedly.