drudge
Plural: drudges
Noun
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
- A person who works in a low servile job.
- Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
Verb
Verb Forms: drudged, drudging, drudges
- To perform hard, menial, or tedious work.
- work hard
- "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
- To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.
Examples
- drudge work
- Some players drudge through their letters, searching for any valid word.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English druggen, which is possibly related to Old English drēogan (“to do; to suffer”).
Synonyms
dig, fag, galley slave, grind, hack, hacker, labor, labour, moil, navvy, peon, toil, travail
Scrabble Score: 9
drudge: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddrudge: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
drudge: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary