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1 drudge
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drudge — ► NOUN ▪ a person made to do hard, menial, or dull work. ORIGIN of unknown origin; perhaps related to DRAG(Cf. ↑drag) … English terms dictionary
drudge — [ drʌdʒ ] noun count someone who has to do a lot of boring and unpleasant work … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
drudge — noun (C) someone who does hard boring work drudge verb (I) … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
drudge — noun a person made to do hard, menial, or dull work. verb archaic do hard, menial, or dull work. Derivatives drudgery noun Origin ME: of unknown origin; perh. related to drag … English new terms dictionary
drudge — UK [drʌdʒ] / US noun [countable] Word forms drudge : singular drudge plural drudges someone who has to do a lot of boring and unpleasant work … English dictionary
drudge — [15] No one is quite sure where drudge comes from. It is first recorded, as a noun, towards the end of the 15th century, and the verb followed about fifty years later. One possible source may be the Middle English verb drugge ‘pull laboriously’,… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
drudge — 1. noun a household drudge Syn: menial worker, slave, lackey, servant, laborer, worker, cog; informal gofer, runner, bottle washer, serf 2. verb, archaic he drudged in the fields See … Thesaurus of popular words
drudge — [15] No one is quite sure where drudge comes from. It is first recorded, as a noun, towards the end of the 15th century, and the verb followed about fifty years later. One possible source may be the Middle English verb drugge ‘pull laboriously’,… … Word origins
drudge — I. verb (drudged; drudging) Etymology: Middle English druggen Date: 14th century intransitive verb to do hard, menial, or monotonous work transitive verb to force to do hard, menial, or monotonous work • drudger noun II … New Collegiate Dictionary
drudge — /drʌdʒ / (say druj) noun 1. someone who labours at servile or uninteresting tasks; a hard toiler. –verb (i) (drudged, drudging) 2. to perform servile, distasteful, or hard work. {? Middle English drugge drag, pull heavily, Old English dreōgan… …
drudge — 1. noun /dɹʌdʒ/ a) A person who works in a low servile job. b) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage by) someone else. 2. verb /dɹʌdʒ/ to labour in (or as in) a low servile job … Wiktionary