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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person who does tedious, menial, or unpleasant work.
  2. v. To do tedious, unpleasant, or menial work.
  3. n. Chesapeake Bay Variant of dredge1.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To work hard, especially at servile, mechanical, or uninteresting work; labor in tedious, dragging tasks; labor with toil and fatigue, and without interest.
  2. n. One who toils, especially at servile or mechanical labor; one who labors hard in servile or uninteresting employments; a spiritless toiler.
  3. n. A large rake.
  4. n. A dredge.
  5. To harrow.
  6. n. Whisky in the raw state, as used in the manufacture of alcohol.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person who works in a low servile job.
  2. n. pejorative Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
  3. v. to labour in (or as in) a low servile job

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
  2. v. To consume laboriously; -- with away.
  3. n. One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. one who works hard at boring tasks
  2. v. work hard
  3. n. a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English druggen, to labor; akin to Old English drēogan, to work, suffer. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby
    Yet if some antiquated lady say,
    The last age is not copied in his play;
    Heaven help the man who for that face must drudge,
    Which only has the wrinkles of a judge.

    - John Dryden, 'All for Love'. Sep 20, 2009

  • madmouth The Drudge expends her life in mopping
    In emptying and filling pails
    She will do so, never stopping,
    Until her strength entirely fails


    -Edward Gorey Apr 15, 2009

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