drudgery
Plural: drudgeries
Noun
- Hard, menial, or tedious work.
- hard monotonous routine work
- Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.
Examples
- The drudgery of sorting through 100 tiles for the perfect word can be daunting.
Origin / Etymology
From drudge (“person who works in a low servile job”) + -ery (suffix meaning ‘the art, craft, or practice of’ forming nouns).
Synonyms
donkeywork, grind, plodding, chore, chores, dogsbody work, drudgery, drudgework, fatigue, razzmatazz, scut, scutwork, swink, toil
Scrabble Score: 14
drudgery: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddrudgery: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
drudgery: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary