Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Monotonous work or menial tasks that have to be done usually as part of a large complex job or project.
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- noun
tasks that aretedious and monotonous ortrivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger project
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If a woman was really hurt the odds were better than even that she would be recycled into the next planned class, doing scutwork in the interim.
Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010
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The women--we need them to do the scutwork, but they're not really in the club.
From Twitter 05-03-2010 e_moon60 2010
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I'm pretty flexible for the most part, I think, but mindless scutwork drives me crazy, and I'm looking for an organization that is oriented to make things simpler and smarter all the time.
Liz Ryan: Ten Ways to Explain Why You Want to Change Jobs 2010
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I'm pretty flexible for the most part, I think, but mindless scutwork drives me crazy, and I'm looking for an organization that is oriented to make things simpler and smarter all the time.
Liz Ryan: Ten Ways to Explain Why You Want to Change Jobs 2010
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If a woman was really hurt the odds were better than even that she would be recycled into the next planned class, doing scutwork in the interim.
The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010
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Other writing-related work: Yeah, gotta do a heapload of SU scutwork tonight, and maybe if I am lucky, there will be a draft of an episode in my inbox tonight.
john, i've been bad and they're coming after me. scalzi 2008
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And unfortunately, what with the new job, finishing grad school, and stepping up responsibilities at Strange Horizons, I'm not going to be able to do the scutwork required for this one.
Bring the Controversy OR, Research Plan Update Karen Burnham 2009
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And unfortunately, what with the new job, finishing grad school, and stepping up responsibilities at Strange Horizons, I'm not going to be able to do the scutwork required for this one.
Archive 2009-08-01 Karen Burnham 2009
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As a non-lawyer, she was then given "research" and scutwork jobs on the Watergate staff.
<a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-were-bill-and-hillary-clinton.html" title="How were Bill and Hillary Clinton different — as law professors Ann Althouse 2008
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But it's tough to improvise a novel, as it were, on the spur of the moment, out of scutwork jobs, demented lovers, bottoming-outs.
In Priceland Chabon, Michael 2008
bilby commented on the word scutwork
I'm fairly amazed that I only came across this quite useful word for the first time today.
February 9, 2024